Levis

My friend and great poet Alexander Long just sent me a message to check out his new essay on Larry Levis over at The Offending Adam, a new online journal.

Check out an excerpt:

"I have this black-and-white photograph of Larry Levis. It’s nothing special; it’s not mine. It’s on the dust jacket of his last—posthumous—book, Elegy. But there is something authentic to it, something lacking occasion, extravagance, pose, artifice…. He’s wearing a dark blazer, and a light striped oxford shirt. He’s sitting, I think. There’s a certain pensiveness to the way his shoulders slump, the way his whole person seems to lean or bend with interest in—or is it fatigue with?—whatever he’s thinking, whatever’s being said to him or by him at that moment. Interest or fatigue? I can’t tell. Either way, there’s a melancholic current running through his meditative, mediating gaze."

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In other news, there's an offsite (of AWP) reading on Thursday, April 8th, in Denver. I may or may not be on the ticket. Still working out details.

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Got a few books yesterday:

Mathias Svalina's Destruction Myth

Jehanne Dubrow's From the Fever-World

Michael Meyerhofer's Blue Collar Eulogies

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Workshop tonight. On the ticket: Linda Gregg's Too Bright to See and poems from classmates.