
07/03/2025
: SWIRL & VORTEX—all the blazingly original work by Larry Levis (1946–1996)—is out February 3, 2026. Preorder now available:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/swirl-vortex-collected-poems-larry-levis/22529825
The poetry of Larry Levis increasingly occupies a legendary place of reverence among poets and readers—the spell of his reputation only continuing to widen in the thirty years since his death. SWIRL & VORTEX at last makes all of Levis’s poetry available in one definitive volume. This collection includes the five books published in Levis’s lifetime, a brilliant reconfiguration of Levis’s posthumous books, and unpublished late poems, edited and with an afterword by David St. John. It's an essential collection by one of the great poets of the end of the twentieth century, and a transformative work spiraling out toward our future.