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Arts & Letters Daily 2/11/2026

We associate confessional poetry with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. But Larry Levis’s confessionalism was different

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We associate confessional poetry with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. But Larry Levis’s confessionalism was different.

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