Neil Aitken reads "Winter Stars" by Larry Levis, from the posthumous collection of his work, The Selected Levis (University of Pittsburgh Press, ).More i. · Winter Stars Poem by Larry Levis. Read Larry Levis poem:My father once broke a man's hand Over the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man, Ruben Vasquez, wanted to Author: Larry Levis. back LARRY LEVIS. Winter Stars. My father once broke a man’s hand Over the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man, Rubén Vásquez, wanted to kill his own father With a sharpened fruit knife, he held The curved tip of it, lightly, between his first Two fingers, so it could slash Horizontally, with surprising grace, Across a throat.
There is so much to admire in Winter Stars that it is difficult to know where to begin. One small but interesting angle on Levis' work is to notice how often he describes "what is not." He seems, in this way, to be drawing circles around possibilities in life, keenly aware of his place outside that circle which contains happiness, meaning, comfort, centrality, success. LARRY LEVIS. Winter Stars. My father once broke a man's hand Over the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man, Ruben Vasquez, wanted to kill his own father With a sharpened fruit knife, and he held The curved tip of it, lightly, between his first Two fingers, so it could slash Horizontally, with surprising grace, Across a throat. One of the most prevailing motifs throughout Larry Levis's poetry collection, Winter Stars, is the theme of time - in particular youth, age, and how the two intersect. For example, his first poem, The Poet at Seventeen, speaks in a narrative tongue, describing scenes more so than playing with more formal elements, such as sounds.
back LARRY LEVIS. Winter Stars. My father once broke a man’s hand Over the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man, Rubén Vásquez, wanted to kill his own father With a sharpened fruit knife, he held The curved tip of it, lightly, between his first Two fingers, so it could slash Horizontally, with surprising grace, Across a throat. The poem “Winter Stars” by Larry Levis starts out depicting a story that a boy is remembering from his child hood. Levis vividly depicts the boy’s father “breaking a man’s hand” (Levis) on a piece of farming equipment because the man named “Rubén Vásquez” (Levis) attempted to kill him with a well described knife. Winter Stars Poem by Larry Levis. Read Larry Levis poem:My father once broke a man's hand Over the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man, Ruben Vasquez, wanted to kill his own father.
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