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"This life & no other" opens the poem "La Strada," and that phrase is emblematic of Levis's powerfully reflective final work. Published 20 years after the poet's death, it collects poems held back from 1997's posthumous Elegy as thematically distinctive. This volume is edited by St. John, who explains in an afterword that these poems set themselves apart as mostly "longer, operatic, and at times wildly ambitious." Indeed they are, though n...Log In or Sign Up to Read More