<em>September Songs</em>
Cover of <em>September Songs</em>
<em>September Songs</em>, by Herman J. Flax. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99112637430001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1984
English
<em>Songs of My Sixties</em>
Cover of <em>Songs of my Sixties</em>
<em>Songs of My Sixties</em>, by Herman J. Flax. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99104859410001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1987
English
A Letter [handwritten draft]
Handwritten draft of the ending to "A Letter" (2 pages).
This work would eventually become "After the Blue Note Closes."
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 6, folder 11, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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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.<br /><br />Possible revision written over first line: "Tonight, holding another /a stranger in my arms--"<br />Various lines explore possibilities for expressing "with great care."
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 6, folder 11, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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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. <br />The phrase "so at last we'll have something in common" appears in Levis' revisions.<br /><br />This work would eventually be separated from "A Letter" and published in the book <em>Winter Stars</em> as "After the Blue Note Closes."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [page 7 typed draft with revisions]
Typed draft of page 7 of "A Letter" with handwritten revisions. <br /><br />This work would eventually become "After the Blue Note Closes."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [page 7 typed with revisions, "Postscript:" at top ]
<span>Typed draft of page 7 of "A Letter" with handwritten revisions and correction fluid. The word "Postscript:" at top of page is crossed out. <br /><br />This work would eventually be separated from "A Letter" and published in the book </span><em>Winter Stars</em><span> as "After the Blue Note Closes."</span>
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [page 7, typed draft with revisions, signed "Love,"]
<span>Typed draft of page 7 of "The Letter" with handwritten revisions. This version of the poem ends with the familiar letter closing, "Love,".</span>
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 6, folder 11, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [photocopied draft]
Photocopied draft in seven pages of "A Letter."<br /><br />This version would undergo further revision. Eventually, page seven would be separated and become "After the Blue Note Closes," a poem also published in <em>Winter Stars</em>.
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 6, folder 11, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [typed draft with Levis notes and Levine comments]
First and last pages of a typed draft of "A Letter." Pencil notes by Larry Levis. Comment at end, written in ink, by Philip Levine.<br />A letter salutation and closing written in pencil ("Dear" and "Love,") frame the poem.
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 7, folder 5, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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A Letter [typed draft with revisions, signed]
Typed draft identified as page 7 of "A Letter" with handwritten revisions. Levis' signature at top right of page.
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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After the Blue Note Closes [typed draft with reader's comments by Philip Levine and revisions by Levis]
Typed draft of "After the Blue Note Closes" in two pages. Page two has reader's comments by Philip Levine and revisions by Larry Levis.
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 7, folder 5, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Air Born: An Artist's Book
Kresge, Ann M.
VCU Libraries, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives
1994
California/Winter Stars [signed draft with revisions]
Typewritten draft of poem in two pages; each page signed by the author at top right. <br />Original title "California" struck through. <br />Corrections and revisions in the author's handwriting. <br /><br />Name of the man in this stae, "Armando Vasquez."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Flickering in pools of rain. [handwritten draft on notebook paper]
Handwritten draft beginning: <br />"Flickering in pools of rain. That street. That rain." (Editorial marks indicate that the order of those last two phrases should be reversed.)<br /><br />The work would first become part of the ending to "A Letter." Later, those verses would be separated to become the poem "After the Blue Note Closes."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Handwritten notes [Winter Stars]
Early lines that would become the poem "Winter Stars."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Hell is not a punk musicians' bar [notes on cocktail napkin]
Levis' handwritten notes on a white cocktail napkin.<br /><br />Associated with the poems "Letter" and "After the Blue Note Closes."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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This Morning; poems
Flanner, Hildegarde
<a href="http://search.library.vcu.edu/VCU:all_scope:VCU_ALMA21351126730001101" target="_blank">PS 3535 .A845Y4 1938 </a><br />Duke no. 927<br /><br />This book is from Cabell's personal library. Now located in the Cabell Room.
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."<br /><br />A band name "The Bel Aires!" appears within parentheses at the top right corner of the page with an arrow point to the place it should be inserted in the text.
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 6, folder 11, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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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."
Levis, Larry
M 426, Box 6, folder 11, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Untitled Draft [Winter Stars, typed with revisions]
Single page (part of larger draft?), typed draft with handwritten revisions. <br /><br />Ending variant: <br />"On a black sky <br />Out there, it's cold enough <br />To reconcile even a father with his son."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00163.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Untitled Poem [Winter Stars, handwritten draft]
Untitled poem, handwritten draft, single page. [Winter Stars]
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Untitled Poem [Winter Stars, handwritten draft]
Single page, handwritten draft begins, "When I left home forever at seventeen..."
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Untitled Poem [Winter Stars, typed with revisions]
Untitled poem [Winter Stars]. Two pages, possibly created at different times.<br />Typed drafts with handwritten revisions. <br />Signed by author.<br /><br />Variations from final version include: <br />man named as Armando Vargas<br />composers named are Stravinsky and Prokofieff <br />"When I left home at seventeen, I left / Forever" and<br />"When I left home at seventeen, / I left forever"
Levis, Larry
<span>M 426, Box 7, folder 4, </span><a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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Winter Stars [cover proof]
Proof of cover design for <em>Winter Stars. </em>Printed on card stock.
Gore, Gary
M 426, Box 8, folder 4, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Levis papers, 1974-2006</a>
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