{"product_id":"winter-stars-9780822953685","title":"Winter Stars","description":"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 \\u201crepresentative life\\u201d of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarry Levis was born in Fresno, California, in 1946. His first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eWrecking Crew\u003c\/i\u003e, won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum, and was published in the Pitt Poetry Series in 1972. His second book, \u003ci\u003eThe Afterlife\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Lamont Award from the American Academy of Poets in 1976. In 1981, \u003ci\u003eThe Dollmaker's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e was a winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series. Among his other awards were three fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Larry Levis died in 1996. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544108306706,"sku":"9780822953685","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_50f43d8b-149b-4a61-90e7-3a42d6fcf3e5.jpg?v=1731520889","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/winter-stars-9780822953685","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}