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News of the World

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307599604
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book News of the World written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb new collection from “a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review). In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent breakfast after the late shift, and Henry Ford, “supremely bored” in his mansion, clocks in at one of his plants . . . from Spain, where a woman sings a song that rises at dawn, like the dust of ages, through an open window . . . from Andorra, where an old Communist can now supply you with anything you want—a French radio, a Cadillac, or, if you have a week, an American film star. The world of his poetry is one of questionable magic: a typist lives for her only son who will die in a war to come; three boys fish in a river while a fine industrial residue falls on their shoulders. This is a haunted world in which exotic animals travel first class, an immigrant worker in Detroit yearns for the silence of his Siberian exile, and the Western mountains “maintain that huge silence we think of as divine.” A rich, deeply felt collection from one of our master poets.

What Work Is

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307761959
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book What Work Is written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award in 1991 “This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous names like Brass Craft or Feinberg and Breslin’s First-Rate Plumbing and Plating. Only Studs Terkel’s Working approaches the pathos and beauty of this book. But Levine’s characters are also significant for their inner lives, not merely their jobs. They are unusually artistic, living ‘at the borders of dreams.’ One reads The Tempest ‘slowly to himself’; another ponders a diagonal chalk line drawn by his teacher to suggest a triangle, the roof of a barn, or the mysterious separation of ‘the dark from the dark.’ What Work Is ranks as a major work by a major poet . . . very accessible and utterly American in tone and language.” —Daniel L. Guillory, Library Journal

The Simple Truth

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307559734
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Simple Truth written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 Written in a voice that moves between elegy and prayer, The Simple Truth contains thirty-three poems whose aim is to weave a complex tapestry of myth, history (both public and private), family, memory, and invention in a search for truths so basic and universal they often escape us all.

The Last Shift

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0451493265
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Last Shift written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final collection of new poems from one of our finest and most beloved poets. The poems in this wonderful collection touch all of the events and places that meant the most to Philip Levine. There are lyrical poems about his family and childhood, the magic of nighttime and the power of dreaming; tough poems about the heavy shift work at Detroit's auto plants, the Nazis, and bosses of all kinds; telling poems about his heroes--jazz players, artists, and working people of every description, even children. Other poems celebrate places and things he loved: the gifts of winter, dawn, a wall in Naples, an English hilltop, Andalusia. And he makes peace with Detroit: "Slow learner that I am, it took me one night/to discover that rain in New York City/is just like rain in Detroit. It gets you wet." It is a peace that comes to full fruition in a moving goodbye to his home town in the final poem in the collection, "The Last Shift."

On the Poetry of Philip Levine

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472063925
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book On the Poetry of Philip Levine written by Philip Levine and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical collection to focus on Levine

New Selected Poems

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book New Selected Poems written by Philip Levine and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes selections from the poet's latest works, Sweet will and A walk with Tom Jefferson.

The Mercy

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375701354
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Mercy written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2000-10-24 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Levine's new collection of poems (his first since The Simple Truth was awarded the Pulitzer Prize) is a book of journeys: the necessary ones that each of us takes from innocence to experience, from youth to age, from confusion to clarity, from sanity to madness and back again, from life to death, and occasionally from defeat to triumph. The book's mood is best captured in the closing lines of the title poem, which takes its name from the ship that brought the poet's mother to America: A nine-year-old girl travels all night by train with one suitcase and an orange. She learns that mercy is something you can eat again and again while the juice spills over your chin, you can wipe it away with the back of your hands and you can never get enough.

One for the Rose

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Carnegie Mellon Classic Contem
ISBN 13 : 9780887483073
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book One for the Rose written by Philip Levine and published by Carnegie Mellon Classic Contem. This book was released on 1999 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One for the Rose shows once again why he is now to be considered one of our indispensable poets: the brilliance of his language, the elegance of his contruction, and the deep involvement with a very human, very immediate subject matter.

My Lost Poets

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 045149329X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book My Lost Poets written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand himself as a poet, the events and people that he wrote about, and the older poets who influenced him. In prose both as superbly rendered as his poetry and as down-to-earth and easy as speaking, Levine reveals the things that made him the poet he became. In the title essay, originally the final speech of his poet laureate year, he recounts how as a boy he composed little speeches walking in the night woods near his house and how he later realized these were his first poems. He wittily takes on the poets he studied with in the Iowa Writing Program: John Berryman, who was his great teacher and lifelong friend, and Robert Lowell, who was neither. His deepest influences--jazz, Spain, the working people of Detroit--are reflected in many of the pieces. There are essays on Spanish poets he admires, William Carlos Williams, Wordsworth, Keats, and others. A wonderful, moving collection of writings that add to our knowledge and appreciation of Philip Levine--both the man and the poet.

Sweet Will

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 0985932511
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Will written by Philip Levine and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Levine published Sweet Will, his eleventh volume of poems, in 1985. His last book with Atheneum, it has been unavailable for many years. Because of its subdued and thoughtful nature, it was seen as a transitional book for Levine, one that presaged the tone of much that was to come. Peter Stitt, writing in the Kenyon Review, called it “the quietest book that Philip Levine has ever written,” concluding that “though the river that glides through it is still on the surface, the sweetness of its will runs deep indeed.” And Dave Smith, writing in Poetry, delighted in the poems of “emergent tenderness and faith,” and claimed that “linking himself to Wordsworth, who loved this world uncommonly in uncommon poetry, Philip Levine has lifted his moral tale to the level of joyful celebration.” The poems in Sweet Will are set in Detroit, California, New York, Europe, and the country of memory. Their aim is to bring the overlooked events of daily life into a sharper focus that transcends the ordinary. At the time of its original publication, the book was seen as an attempt to bring together the themes and methods of Levine’s early, groundbreaking work: the anger of They Feed They Lion, the family concerns of 1933, the characters of The Names of the Lost, and the hopes of One for the Rose. Yet it is clearly a mid-career book composed by a poet who can begin to look back in tranquility at a tempestuous life. The poems, including the long meditation of more than five hundred lines, “A Poem with No Ending,” are beautiful and essential. Restored to print, they will resonate with readers who love both the earlier and the later work of one of our most important poets.

Coming Close

Author : Mari L'Esperance
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 0985932538
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Coming Close written by Mari L'Esperance and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays pays tribute to Philip Levine as teacher and mentor. Throughout his fifty-year teaching career, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Levine taught scores of younger poets, many of whom went on to become famous in their own right. These forty essays honor and celebrate one of our most vivid and gifted poets. Whether in Fresno, New York, Boston, Detroit, or any of the other cities where Levine taught, his students benefited from his sharp, humorous honesty in the classroom. In these personal essays, poets spanning a number of generations reveal how their lives and work were forever altered by studying with Levine. The heartfelt tributes illuminate how one dedicated teacher’s intangible gifts can make a vast difference in the life of a developing poet, as well as providing insight into the changing tenor of the poetry workshop in the American university setting. Here, poets as diverse as Nick Flynn and David St. John, Sharon Olds and Larry Levis, Ada Limon and Mark Levine, Malena Morling and Lawson Fusao Inada are united in their deep regard for Philip Levine. The voices echo and reverberate as each strikes its own honoring tone. Contributors: Aaron Belz, Ciaran Berry, Paula Bohince, Shane Book, B. H. Boston, Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Colin Cheney, Michael Clifton, Michael Collier, Nicole Cooley, Kate Daniels, Blas Manuel De Luna, Kathy Fagan, Andrew Feld, Nick Flynn, Edward Hirsch, Sandra Hoben, Ishion Hutchinson, Lawson Fusao Inada, Dorianne Laux, Joseph O. Legaspi, Mark Levine, Larry Levis, Ada Limón, Elline Lipkin, Jane Mead, Dante Micheaux, Malena Mörling, John Murillo, Daniel Nester, Sharon Olds, January Gill O’Neil, Greg Pape, Kathleen Peirce, Sam Pereira, Jeffrey Skinner, Tom Sleigh, David St. John, Brian Turner, Robert Wrigley

New Selected Poems of Philip Levine

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030776141X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book New Selected Poems of Philip Levine written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIGHTS I HAVE SEEN BEFORE The children are off somewhere and when I waken I hear only the buzz of current in the TV and the refrigerator groaning against the coming day. I rise and wash; there is nothing to think of except the insistent push of water, and the pipe's

Not This Pig

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819569607
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Not This Pig written by Philip Levine and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling second collection of poetry.

Stranger to Nothing

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stranger to Nothing written by Philip Levine and published by Bloodaxe Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always a poet of memory and invention, Philip Levine has written poems which search for universal truths. In this collection, his poetry addresses the joys and sufferings of industrial life, with radiant feeling, as well as painful irony.

The Last Shift

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 045149377X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Last Shift written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback--the final collection of new poems from one of our finest and most beloved poets. The poems in this wonderful collection touch all of the events and places that meant the most to Philip Levine. There are lyrical poems about his family and childhood, the magic of nighttime and the power of dreaming; tough poems about the heavy shift work at Detroit's auto plants, the Nazis, and bosses of all kinds; telling poems about his heroes--jazz players, artists, and working people of every description, even children. Other poems celebrate places and things he loved: the gifts of winter, dawn, a wall in Naples, an English hilltop, Andalusia. And he makes peace with Detroit: "Slow learner that I am, it took me one night / to discover that rain in New York City / is just like rain in Detroit. It gets you wet." It is a peace that comes to full fruition in a moving goodbye to his home town in the final poem in the collection, "The Last Shift."

Breath

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307514900
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Breath written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always a poet of memory and invention, Philip Levine looks back at his own life as well as the adventures of his ancestors, his relatives, and his friends, and at their rites of passage into an America of victories and betrayals. He transports us back to the street where he was born “early in the final industrial century” to help us envision an America he’s known from the 1930s to the present. His subjects include his brothers, a great-uncle who gave up on America and returned to czarist Russia, a father who survived unspeakable losses, the artists and musicians who inspired him, and fellow workers at the factory who shared the best and worst of his coming of age. Throughout the collection Levine rejoices in song–Dinah Washington wailing from a jukebox in midtown Manhattan; Della Daubien hymning on the crosstown streetcar; Max Roach and Clifford Brown at a forgotten Detroit jazz palace; the prayers offered to God by an immigrant uncle dreaming of the Judean hills; the hoarse notes of a factory worker who, completing another late shift, serenades the sleeping streets. Like all of Levine’s poems, these are a testament to the durability of love, the strength of the human spirit, the persistence of life in the presence of the coming dark.

A Walk with Tom Jefferson

Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030782974X
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A Walk with Tom Jefferson written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the title poem of Philip Levine’s A Walk with Tom Jefferson is not the founding father and third president of the United States that most readers would imagine upon hearing the name. Levine’s Tom Jefferson is quite different from his namesake: he is an African American living in a destitute area of industrial Detroit. But to Levine, he is “wise, compassionate, deliberate, honest…a great unknown American.” In A Walk with Tom Jefferson, Philip Levine reminds us why he is best known for his poems about working-class life in Detroit--and why so many people count a Levine poem among their favorites.