Philip Levine (1928–2015)
Autore di What Work Is
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Frances Levine
Opere di Philip Levine
Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (2004) 4 copie
Naming 3 copie
Naming : a poem 1 copia
Set poemes 1 copia
Smoke 1 copia
Dreaming in Swedish 1 copia
Blue 1 copia
Cuatro poemas 1 copia
Ask For Nothing 1 copia
Smoke 1 copia
The Poem of Chalk 1 copia
Opere correlate
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 926 copie
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Collaboratore — 301 copie
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943 (2021) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
South Dakota review : the symposium: ten poets: fiction and poetry, volume 5, number 3 (autumn 1967) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Levine, Philip
- Data di nascita
- 1928-01-10
- Data di morte
- 2015-02-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Fresno, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- pancreatic cancer
- Luogo di residenza
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Istruzione
- Wayne State University (BA | 1950 | MA | 1954)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA | 1957) - Attività lavorative
- dichter
- Relazioni
- Cohen, Andrea (student)
- Organizzazioni
- California State University, Fresno (professor)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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) (mostra tutto 7)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1997)
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- Opere
- 57
- Opere correlate
- 36
- Utenti
- 1,739
- Popolarità
- #14,791
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 13
- ISBN
- 70
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 9