Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems

All the blazingly original work by Larry Levis, “one of the greatest poets of a generation” (Carolyn Forché)

The poetry of Larry Levis increasingly occupies a legendary place of reverence among poets and readers—the spell of his reputation only continuing to widen in the thirty years since his death. From the briefer lyrics and deep image-making of his early books to the long sequences and operatic narratives of his last works, Levis’s poems have an unmistakable signature, a way of expressin...