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Larry Levis

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born

September 30, 1946 in Fresno, The United States

died

January 01, 1996

gender

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Larry Patrick Levis was born in Fresno, California, on September 30, 1946. His father was a grape grower, and in his youth Levis drove a tractor, pruned vines, and picked grapes in Selma, California. He earned a bachelor's degree from Fresno State College (now California State University, Fresno) in 1968, a master's degree from Syracuse University in 1970, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1974.

Among his honors were a YM-YWHA Discovery Award, three fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Levis died of a heart attack in 1996, at the age of 49. His last collection, Elegy, edited by Philip Levine, was published posthumously in 1997.

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Books by Larry Levis

Average rating: 4.49 · 1,177 ratings · 77 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Elegy by Larry Levis, Philip Levine (Editor) 4.53 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Selected Levis: Revised Edition by Larry Levis, David St. John (Afterword) 4.60 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Winter Stars 4.56 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Widening Spell of the Leaves 4.57 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	The Afterlife 4.37 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Gazer Within by Larry Levis, Andrew Miller, John Venable 4.36 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wrecking Crew 4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Dollmaker's Ghost 4.32 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Black Freckles 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	The Dollmaker's Ghost 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997	My rating:

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Quotes by Larry Levis

“The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery remains a condition of it.”
― Larry Levis

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“This story has no point but stillness itself...”
― Larry Levis

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