<p>The untimely death of Larry Levis in 1996 left the world of American poetry stunned and dismayed. His work was of such depth and such amazing resonance, that it was admired and studied by an entire generation of poets and readers, regardless of esthetic or cultural predispositions. Levis's poems crossed borders, broke down barriers, and invited a sharing of the strange, sweet loneliness of being that is the fundamental human lot. A Condition of the Spirit brings together reviews, essays, interviews, and mediations by more than forty American poets profoundly affected by Levis's life and work. But that's not all: the book also contains twelve previously uncollected essays by Levis himself, making it a handbook for the study of the poet's thinking on the craft of poetry and the craft of life. </p>Contributors to the collection include Philip Levine, Charles Wright, Diane Wakoski, Stephen Dunn, David St. John, Peter Everwine, Dave Smith, Stephen Sandy, Nancy Eimers, Peter Stitt, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, Sandra Gilbert, David Young, and Gerald Stern.

A Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry Levis

Biographies & Memoirs

Buckley, Christopher

Long, Alexander

Arts & Literature

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Poetry. "The poems in Alexander Long's LIGHT HERE, LIGHT THERE offer no bromides, no easy consolations. His new book is a product of 'the grieving mind in memory,' and Long seems to have forgotten nothing. The misery of a failed marriage, a friend's suicide, and the casual ruin of other wasted lives are cataloged with a ruthless precision. But 'every apocalypse is personal,' Long assures us, and because it is, we readers experience the same redemption that Long somehow manages to coax out of the relentless assault of the past. Alexander Long's poems are superbly lyrical, agile and flamboyant. His description of Jimi Hendrix in one of his poems is an apt description of Long as well: 'wicked and bright and on'"--Gary Young.

Light Here, Light There

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

C&R Press

<i>On Distance</i> is Alexander Long’s fourth full-length collection of poems. Long’s poems are riveting and bring up questions regarding humanity. The collection itself is divided into four distinct sections that each deal with their own humanitarian concern: returning home and the nostalgia that finds you; the downfall and heartbreak of humanity; hard, unspoken questions about society; and the wake of heartbreak left behind by the suicide of a close friend. Despite this raw subject matter, Long manages to leave his readers with a hope that lingers like a flicker in the shadows.

On Distance

Stephen F. Austin University Press

Poetry. "Alexander Long has subject, and with honed and original craft, this makes for voice, makes for poems we can believe and care about, enter and learn a little more of what it means to be human, to be here...Long knows about the surface of poems, how to keep them fresh in syntax even though there is a story to be told, a part of life to be examined. He is never writing to the trend. Yet, you will hear an original rhythm, and where appropriate, like a jazz musician, you will hear homage, a riff quoted from a master. His work is mature; he has something to write about; it's soul making"--Christopher Buckley.

Vigil (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

New Issues Poetry and Prose

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