{"product_id":"9781555979201","title":"The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe empty bar that someone was supposed to swing to him\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDid not arrive,\u0026amp;so his outstretched flesh itself became\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA darkening trapeze. The two other acrobats were thieves.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e                        \u003c\/i\u003e--from \"Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It\"\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Darkening Trapeze\u003c\/i\u003e 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with an afterword by David St. John and published  twenty years after Levis's death, this collection contains major  unpublished works, including final elegies, brief lyrics, and a coda  believed to be the last poem Levis wrote, a heart-wrenching poem about  his son. \u003ci\u003eThe Darkening Trapeze\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing collection by a poet many consider to be among the greatest of late-twentieth-century American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128413667568,"sku":"9781555979201","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555979201_p0.jpg?v=1763760930","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555979201","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}