Poem of the Week | April 22, 2012
Larry Levis: "Labyrinth as the Erasure of Cries Heard Once Within It or: (Mr. Bones I Succeeded. . .' Later)"
This week we’re featuring a poem by the late great Larry Levis, a co-editor of TMR in the late seventies, as well as an award-winning and amazingly influential poet and teacher. His books include, among others, The Afterlife (University of Iowa Press), Winter Stars (University of Pittsburg Press), The Widening Spell of Leaves (University of Pittsburg Press), and Elegy (University of Pittsburg Press). This poem was first published in the 1991 issue 13:3 of TMR.
photo by Jay Paul
Labyrinth as the Erasure of Cries Heard Once Within It or: (Mr. Bones I Succeeded…’ Later)
-for John Berryman
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