Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems Increasingly fascinated by the most

Increasingly fascinated by the most shameful of experiences

and propulsive

she is loath to trust this stranger

In one afterlife

At once a naturalistic epic

Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems Increasingly fascinated by the mostAll the blazingly original work by Larry Levis, "one of the greatest poets of a generation" (Carolyn Forch) The poetry of Larry Levis increasingly occupies a legendary place of reverence among poets and readers the spell of his reputation only continuing to widen in the thirty years since his death. From the briefer lyrics and deep image making of his early books to the long sequences and operatic narratives of his last works, Levis's poems have an