The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems

Did not arrive, & so his outstretched flesh itself became

A darkening trapeze. The two other acrobats were thieves.

—from "Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It"

The Darkening Trapeze collects the last poems by Larry Levis, written during the extraordinary blaze of his final years when his poetry expanded into the ambitious operatic masterpieces he is known for. Edited and with an afterword by David St. John and published twenty years ...