Larry

(Includes "No Smell") Larry

Larry, poet of the interior life, nothing about his adult appearance or habitation revealed such a gladitorial soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of his own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed his true self. Larry did not live in time but in universals--an acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. ("includes no smell") is a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.