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League of Women Voters poster
Printed by Erie Litho & Ptg Co.
Illustration by Louis Valentine Bonhajo (1885-1970)
Illustration by Louis Valentine Bonhajo (1885-1970)
What Work Is : Poems
Volume dedicated and Inscribed by the author to Larry Levis. From the Larry Levis Collection.Inscription:
April 11, ‘91Dear Larry,I wanted you to have the first copy of this book because (Turn 2 pages, please) … You know WHAT WORK IS, & no one…
Winter Stars [handwritten by Levis on notepaper]
Handwritten version of Winter Stars. Not in final form.
Winter Stars [photocopy with comments by Philip Levine]
Poem on two pages; each page signed at top "Larry Levis." Reader's comments handwritten by Philip Levine.Ink stain at right appears to have happened after comments were penned.
Winter Stars [typed with reader's comments in pencil]
Poem typed on three pages with unidentified reader's comments handwritten in pencil.
Winter Stars [draft title page]
Draft title page of manuscript for Winter Stars [book].Signed by author.Four possible titles (typed and handwritten in black ink) have been struck through in blue ink, leaving "Winter Stars" which has been circled in blue ink.Rejected titles:Late…
California/Winter Stars [signed draft with revisions]
Typewritten draft of poem in two pages; each page signed by the author at top right. Original title "California" struck through.Corrections and revisions in the author's handwriting.Name of the man in this stae, "Armando Vasquez."
Untitled Poem [Winter Stars, typed with revisions]
Untitled poem [Winter Stars]. Two pages, possibly created at different times.Typed drafts with handwritten revisions.Signed by author.Variations from final version include: man named as Armando Vargascomposers named are Stravinsky and Prokofieff…
Handwritten notes [Winter Stars]
Early lines that would become the poem "Winter Stars."
Untitled Poem [Winter Stars, handwritten draft]
Untitled poem, handwritten draft, single page. [Winter Stars]
Untitled Poem [Winter Stars, handwritten draft]
Single page, handwritten draft begins, "When I left home forever at seventeen..."
Winter Stars [signed, typed draft]
Typed draft with revisions, signed by the author. Man's name is "Ruben Vasquez." Strike through changes line from "wanted to kill his own father" to "wanted to kill his daughter."Handwritten revision at side, "I don't know. When I left home at…
Untitled Draft [Winter Stars, typed with revisions]
Single page (part of larger draft?), typed draft with handwritten revisions. Ending variant: "On a black sky Out there, it's cold enough To reconcile even a father with his son."
Hell is not a punk musicians' bar [notes on cocktail napkin]
Levis' handwritten notes on a white cocktail napkin.Associated with the poems "Letter" and "After the Blue Note Closes."
A Letter [page 7 typed draft with revisions / After the Blue Note Closes]
Typed draft identified as page 7 of the poem "A Letter" with handwritten revisions.The phrase "so at last we'll have something in common" appears in Levis' revisions.This work would eventually be separated from "A Letter" and published in the…
A Letter [photocopied draft]
Photocopied draft in seven pages of "A Letter."This version would undergo further revision. Eventually, page seven would be separated and become "After the Blue Note Closes," a poem also published inWinter Stars.
A Letter [handwritten draft]
Handwritten draft of the ending to "A Letter" (2 pages).
This work would eventually become "After the Blue Note Closes."
This work would eventually become "After the Blue Note Closes."
A Letter [page 7 draft with revisions, calculations at right]
Typed draft of page 7 of "The Letter" with handwritten revisions. Numerical calculations in right margin.Possible revision written over first line: "Tonight, holding another /a stranger in my arms--"Various lines explore possibilities for expressing…
A Letter [page 7 typed draft with revisions]
Typed draft of page 7 of "A Letter" with handwritten revisions.This work would eventually become "After the Blue Note Closes."
A Letter [page 7, typed draft with revisions, signed "Love,"]
Typed draft of page 7 of "The Letter" with handwritten revisions. This version of the poem ends with the familiar letter closing, "Love,".
A Letter [page 7 typed with revisions, "Postscript:" at top ]
Typed draft of page 7 of "A Letter" with handwritten revisions and correction fluid. The word "Postscript:" at top of page is crossed out.This work would eventually be separated from "A Letter" and published in the bookWinter Starsas "After the Blue…
Untitled draft [handwritten draft of "A Letter." "The Bel Aires!" at top right corner]
Handwritten draft of verses that would first be part of "A Letter" and finally become the poem "After the Blue Note Closes."A band name "The Bel Aires!" appears within parentheses at the top right corner of the page with an arrow point to the place…
Flickering in pools of rain. [handwritten draft on notebook paper]
Handwritten draft beginning:"Flickering in pools of rain. That street. That rain." (Editorial marks indicate that the order of those last two phrases should be reversed.)The work would first become part of the ending to "A Letter." Later, those…
Untitled draft [typed with handwritten revisions, "A Letter"]
Untitled draft of verse which would become first part of , "A Letter" and ultimately "After the Blue Note Closes."
