Philip Levine (1928–2015)
Forfatter af What Work Is
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Philip Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan on January 10, 1928. Starting at the age of 14, he held a series of industrial jobs including working in a soap factory, hefting cases of soft drinks at a bottling plant, manning a punch press at Chevrolet Gear and Axle, and operating a jackhammer at vis mere Detroit Transmission. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Wayne State University and a master of fine arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first collection of poetry, On the Edge, was published in 1961. His other poetry collections included 1933, Not This Pig, They Feed They Lion, A Walk with Tom Jefferson, The Mercy, and Breath. He won numerous awards during his lifetime including the 1977 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for The Names of the Lost, the 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award for Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years from Somewhere, the 1987 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for his body of work, the National Book Award for Ashes: Poems New and Old in 1980 and for What Work Is in 1991, and a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Simple Truth. He was appointed the Library of Congress 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 2011 to 2012. His poetry appeared in several publications including The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine. He also published a collection of autobiographical essays entitled Bread of Time and edited an anthology entitled The Essential Keats. He died of pancreatic cancer on February 14, 2015 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Frances Levine
Værker af Philip Levine
Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (2004) 4 eksemplarer
Naming 3 eksemplarer
Naming : a poem 1 eksemplar
Set poemes 1 eksemplar
Smoke 1 eksemplar
Dreaming in Swedish 1 eksemplar
Blue 1 eksemplar
Dreaming in Swedish : three poems 1 eksemplar
Cuatro poemas 1 eksemplar
Ask For Nothing 1 eksemplar
Smoke 1 eksemplar
The Poem of Chalk 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 917 eksemplarer
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Bidragyder — 831 eksemplarer
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Bidragyder — 300 eksemplarer
My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love (1998) — Bidragyder — 68 eksemplarer
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Bidragyder — 26 eksemplarer
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943 (2021) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
South Dakota review : the symposium: ten poets: fiction and poetry, volume 5, number 3 (autumn 1967) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- Levine, Philip
- Fødselsdato
- 1928-01-10
- Dødsdag
- 2015-02-14
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Dødssted
- Fresno, California, USA
- Dødsårsag
- pancreatic cancer
- Bopæl
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Uddannelse
- Wayne State University (BA | 1950 | MA | 1954)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA | 1957) - Erhverv
- dichter
- Relationer
- Cohen, Andrea (student)
- Organisationer
- California State University, Fresno (professor)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1987)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1973)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (2011-2012)
Wallace Stevens Award (2013)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1995)
National Book Award for Poetry (1980) (vis alle 7)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1997)
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The Last Shift: Poems af Philip Levine
The last volume from one of my favorite poets.
Very beautiful, very rich. Powerful and personal - I felt like I could hear his voice speaking directly to me.
My Lost Poets is one of the most wonderful books on poetry, writing and literature that I have ever read. Philip Levine, in his quiet, humble and unassuming way, demonstrates what made him one of America's great poets. His stories of Thom Gunn and John Berryman, his sweet praise of Roberta Spear and Larry Levis, and the history of poetry in the Spanish Civil War, as well as his own history of how he came to be a poet, make this an extraordinary collection of essays. It also makes me very sad that Philip Levine is no longer here to write.… (mere)
2009 (my attempt at a review can be found on the LibraryThing post linked)
http://www.librarything.com/topic/68641#1378994
http://www.librarything.com/topic/68641#1378994
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