Winter Stars: Revised Edition

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Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. What emerges is not merely autobiography, but a biography of the reader, a representative life of our time.

Author: Larry Levis
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 02/03/2026
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.62w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9780822968016
ISBN10: 0822968010
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American

About the Author
Larry Levis was born in Fresno, California, in 1946. His first book of poems, Wrecking Crew, won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum, and was published in the Pitt Poetry Series in 1972. His second book, The Afterlife, won the Lamont Award from the American Academy of Poets in 1976. In 1981, The Dollmaker's Ghost was a winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series. Among his other awards were three fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Larry Levis died in 1996.