Elegy by Larry Levis

By Larry Levis

Larry Levis used to be a very good poet, and a scholar and colleague of Philip Levine. Levine, who edited this posthumous manuscript, writes that Levis's "early loss of life is a dazzling loss for our poetry, yet what he left is a tremendous success that would enhance our lives for so long as poetry matters." That's excessive compliment, and the poems in Elegy are stable adequate to hold the burden of these expectancies. particularly amazing is "The Oldest residing factor in L.A.," an come across among urbanites trapped in the prisons in their workouts, and an ancient-seeming possum crossing a hectic urban highway: "It might elevate its black lips & convey them / The reddened gums, the lengthy rows of incisors, / tooth that went all of the long ago past / The flames of Troy & Carthage..." Levis's writing is marked through memorable imagery that resonates either to the area of our day-by-day lives and our mythic longings for transcendence.

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48. For the right hand's salience in the context of animal sacrifice, see Eur. El. 812; Hel. 1581. On the importance of the right-hand side in connection with the dedication of grain, see Eur. IA 1472. Elsewhere, Dionysus notes that real Bacchantes hold the wand in the right hand and raise it as they raise the right foot (Eur. Bacch. 941—44). Concerning the religious arena, cf. Hdt. 1, where the bowl of greater value is placed on the right side of the entrance to the temple at Delphi. 49. Regarding the organization of the Greek army at Plataea, see Hdt.

For the right hand's salience in the context of animal sacrifice, see Eur. El. 812; Hel. 1581. On the importance of the right-hand side in connection with the dedication of grain, see Eur. IA 1472. Elsewhere, Dionysus notes that real Bacchantes hold the wand in the right hand and raise it as they raise the right foot (Eur. Bacch. 941—44). Concerning the religious arena, cf. Hdt. 1, where the bowl of greater value is placed on the right side of the entrance to the temple at Delphi. 49. Regarding the organization of the Greek army at Plataea, see Hdt.

308-11). Although an etymological tie between Ares and artipos is conceivable, it is more likely that the parallels here are on the phonetic plane. 39. ), who treats the connection between Kronos and kraino as phonetic ("alliteration of Kp-") rather than etymological. ) does not note any sort of link, stating that "this 'father's curse' receives no further mention in the play; nor do we hear of it anywhere else in ancient literature. " That an etymological tie is being forged here was recognized by Kranz (1933, 289).

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