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LARRY LEVIS
Two Poems by Larry Levis
Blackbird presents two poems by Larry
Levis.
The first, "Poem Ending With a Hotel on Fire," was
originally published in 64 Magazine. The video of Levis reading
it may have been recorded in the summer of 1992, maybe later, location
unknown. Blackbird and the Levis estate would appreciate receiving
any information readers may have regarding where or when the video was
made.
The second poem, "Those Graves in Rome," was
published first in Winter Stars and then in The
Selected Levis: Selected and With an Afterword by David St. John (both
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985 and 2000 respectively). In the
conversation with Philip Levine published in this issue of Blackbird (see
Nonfiction, "A Conversation with Philip Levine"), Levine refers
not to the poem itself, but
to the visit he and Levis once made to the graves of John Keats and Joseph
Severn, the visit that later became the poem's subject. 
Poem
Ending With a Hotel on Fire | Video 
Those
Graves in Rome
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