Description: Included in LitHub's Most Anticipated Poetry of 2026
Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. What emerges is not merely autobiography, but a biography of the reader, a representative life of our time.Review Quotes: All of Levis's previous three collections have won awards, and Winter Stars continues to demonstrate his power. The best poems here contemplate childhood and adolescence, what is lost and what is carried away to be discovered in adulthood. The specter of the father is especially felt.-- "Library Journal"