Larry levis biography

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Larry Levis

Larry Patrick Levis was born in Fresno, California, on September 30, 1946. His father was a grape grower, and in his youth Levis drove a tractor, pruned vines, and picked grapes in Selma, California. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Fresno State College (now California State University, Fresno) in 1968, a master’s degree from Syracuse University in 1970, and a PhD from the University of Iowa in 1974.

Levis’s first book of poems, Wrecking Crew (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972), won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum. His second book, The Afterlife (University of Iowa Press, 1976), was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The American Academy of Poets. In 1981, The Dollmaker’s Ghost (Dutton) was a winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series.

About Levis’s work, poet Robert Mezey said,

Larry Levis writes a poetry that is full of surprises. Not the predictable and boring surprises that can be created by formula, but the nourishing shock of fresh ideas that rise from the work of the true poet.

Among Levis’s honors are a YM-YWHA Discovery Award, three fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

“Levis is

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Larry Levis

American poet and teacher

Larry Levis
Born	Larry Patrick Levis (1946-09-30)September 30, 1946 Fresno, California
Died	May 8, 1996(1996-05-08) (aged 49) Richmond, Virginia
Occupation	Poet, teacher
Nationality	American
Education	Fresno State College (BA, 1968); Syracuse University (MA,1970); University of Iowa (Ph.D, 1974)
Years active	1972–1996
Notable works	Winter Stars (1985) The Widening Spell of the Leaves (1992) Elegy (1997) The Darkening Trapeze (2016)^[1]
Notable awards	National Poetry Series, Lamont Poetry Selection
Spouse	Marcia Southwick^[2]
Children	Nicholas Levis

Larry Patrick Levis (September 30, 1946 – May 8, 1996) was an American poet and teacher who published five books of poetry during his lifetime.^[3] Two more volumes of previously unpublished poems appeared posthumously, and received general acclaim.^[4]^[5]

Life and work

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Youth

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Larry Levis was born in Fresno, California in 1946. He was the fourth (and youngest) child born to William Kent Levis, a grape grower, and Carol Mayo Levis.^[6]

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