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Title: Noel Allen and her boyfriend, David St. John, planned a trip to Atlantic City during spring break at North Carolina's Guilford Technical Community College, where Allen is a developmental mathematics instructor.(faculty lounge)
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This digital document, covering the life and work of David St. John Thomas, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 711 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Edited and with an Afterword by David St. John

When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that hehad years earlier recognized Levis as the most gifted and determinedyoung poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of myclasses. . . . His early death is a staggering loss for our poetry,but what he left isevement that will enrich our lives. Each of hisbooks was published to wide critical acclaim, and David St. John hascollected together the best of his work from his first five books:Wrecking Crew (1972), Afterlife (1976), The Dollmakers Ghost (1981),Winter Stars (1985) and The Widening Spell of the Leaves (1991).

It is not an exaggeration to say that the death of Larry Levis in1996of a heart attack at 49sent a shock wave through the ranksof American poetry. Not only was Levis a gooew, won the United StatesAward from the International Poetry Forum, and was published in thePitt Poetry Series in 1972. His second book, The Afterlife, won theLamont Award from the American Academy of Poets in 1976. In 1981, TheDollmakers Ghost was a winner of the Open Competition of the NationalPoetry Series. Among his other awards were three fellowships in poetryfrom the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Fellowship, anda Guggenheim Fellowship. Larry Levis died in 1996. ... Read more

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Indispensible
What can I possibly say about this poet? He is beyond. This book will mess you up in all the best ways. You won't regret it.

Gathers inspirational and moving verse
Now in a newly revised edition that includes verses from "Elegy", Larry Levis' (1946-1996) final collection of poetry, The Selected Levis, gathers inspirational and moving verse whose lyrical, picturesque wording evokes an atmosphere all its own -- sometimes beautiful, sometimes bleak and dark. But some things are not possible on the earth./And that is why people make poems about the dead./And the dead watch over them, until they are finished:/Until their hands feel like glass on the page,/And snow collects in the blind eyes of statues.

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I'd like to make a correction to my review--when I wrote this I was so excited about the collection that I wasn't thinking straight! There are no poems from his last full collection, Elegy in here; the Selected Poems ends with the Widening Spell of the Leaves. I didn't mean to misrepresent this volume. But if you've never read any Levis before, buy the selected, and buy Elegy, and work from there.

As good as it gets
I think it was Michael Levenson who said that "It's easy to have an opinion, but so hard to write a sentence that counts." Nearly every one of Levis's sentences counted, through a deep and original sense of line and a voice that easily alternated between the fierce and tender. Except perhaps from his first book, nearly everything that Levis wrote resonated--he's one of the best, and sadly, one of the most underrated, of the poets of the 80s and 90s.

He did this by creating new KINDS of poems; the cadences (particularly in his later books) are singularly his, and tonally the poems can be elegaic, or funny, but they're not just "feelings put on paper." His poems aren't merely glib, vague confessional prose broken up arbitrarily into lines, as seems to be trendy lately. Tonally they might vary from the elegaic to the absurdly funny--but they are all part of a deep exploration by Levis of human experience. He is often rooted in regional soil (the hardscrabble California vineyards of his childhood) but he is not a "regional" writer; in other words, whatever his experiences in life might be, he uses poetry as a way to transform them, merely than just describe them. He can write a poem about Belgrade, and have the same type of unbounded imagery, rhythms, and lyrical force than he has writing about "home."

Perhaps the greatest poems here are the Elegies from his last book, in which the elegies themselves become kind of semiautonomous creatures in of themselves (the titles say much to this regard: "Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the cage," "Elegy with a Petty Thief in the Rigging," "Elegy with an Angel inside its gate," etc), and are probably the best sequence of poems I've seen in a long long time.

In short, this is a fine introduction to Levis's work--but if you're hooked, you're going to want all of his books anyway (most of which are thankfully in-print by both Pittsburgh and Carneige Mellon). It has been awfully hard to pin down in words what makes his work so special, because in many ways, just like his poems, it defies easy categorization. His poems don't necessarily provide nice morals at the end; they aren't sugar-coated. But I can't think of another poet--even Sylvia Plath, whose work I love--who I regret (grieve, really) had died an early death. With any luck a hundred years from now people will be reading, passionately, Levis's work. ... Read more

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The Gazer Within collects the prose of one of America's favorite poets. Refreshingly candid, laugh-out-loud funny, and, at the same time, intimate, the pieces trace Larry Levis's early years growing up on his father's farm, his decision at sixteen to become a poet, and his undergraduate experience in the days of the Vietnam War. In addition to memoir, there are critical reviews, including his seminal essay on the poet Philip Levine, and reviews of poets as diverse as W. D. Snodgrass and Zbigniew Herbert.
David St. John's foreword speaks eloquently of Levis's enduring legacy: "Of the poets of his generation, Larry Levis spoke most powerfully of what it means to be a poet at this historical moment. With the same majesty he brought to his poetry, Larry Levis engaged his readers with the most subtle and disturbing questions of the self to be found in the prose--essays, reviews or interviews--of any contemporary American poet. Broadly international in his scope and deeply personal in his reflections, Levis addressed poetic concerns that are both immediate and timeless. For many of us who struggle with these issues, Larry Levis's prose on poetry stands as some of the most capacious to be found since Randell Jarrell's."
The late Larry Levis was the author of six volumes of poetry. He was Director of the Creative Writing Program, University of Utah; Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University; and also taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop.
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Title: Congregation gives rest to the heavy laden. (PCC news).(St. David's Church, St. John's, Canada, provides emergency aid, September 11th, 2001)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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Date: November 1, 2001
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