The Cop Touch of Evil .... Orson Welles creates one of noir's unforgettable villians, Hank Quinlan, a corrupt cop working the American side of the Tijuana border. Larry Levis FISH for Philip Levine The cop holds me up like a fish; he feels the huge bones surrounding my eyes, and he runs a thumb under them, lifting my eyelids as if they were envelopes filled with the night. Now he turns my head ...

Larry Levis (1946 - 1996) Home | Two Poems From 1974 to 1976, Larry Levis was my poetry teacher at the University of Missouri - Columbia. He helped found the writing program there and was instrumental - along with his wife, Marcia Southwick, and fiction writer Speer Morgan and others - in establishing The Missouri Review. He died unexpectedly in 1996. His warmth as a human being, his passion for ...