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Philip Levine
B. 1934 D. 2015
The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Philip Levine grew up in industrial Detroit during the Great Depression of the 1930s. In The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography Levine deals with…
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Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter, Out of black bean and wet slate bread, Out of the acids of rage, the candor of tar, Out of creosote,…
Poem
We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is – if you’re old enough to read this you…
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On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane - Philip Levine
Brooklyn, 1929. Of course Crane’s been drinking and has no idea who this curious Andalusian is, unable even to speak the language of poetry. The young man who brought…
Poem
When my brother came home from war he carried his left arm in a black sling but assured us most of it was still there. Spring was late, the trees…
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Animals Are passing From Our Lives - Philip Levine
It’s wonderful how I jog on four honed-down ivory toes my massive buttocks slipping like oiled parts with each light step. I’m to market. I can smell the sour,…
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Anthony Lawrence
B. 1957
…his major influences a mixture of mostly 20th Century Australian and American collections, including Robert Lowell’s Life Studies, the selected poems of Philip Levine, Philip Hodgins’ Selected Poems, The Gold…
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Hannah Lowe
B. 1976
…I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it’s the home of the extraordinary, the only home’ – Philip Levine ‘I loved them, my children, my wife, my home;…
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Charles Wright
B. 1935
Charles Wright [b. 1935] is a poet whose work “catches the visible world at that endless moment before it trails into eternity” [Philip Levine]. This search for transcendence has sustained…
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Yvor Winters
B. 1900 D. 1968
…in 1934, and then as a member of the English department. Among his students at Stanford were an extraordinary group of younger poets, including Thom Gunn, Robert Pinsky, Philip Levine,…