Philip Levine (1928–2015)

Autore di What Work Is

57+ opere 1,737 membri 13 recensioni 9 preferito

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

Comprende il nome: Philip Levine

Fonte dell'immagine: Frances Levine

Opere di Philip Levine

Popolari Recenti

What Work Is (1991) 405 copie

The Simple Truth: Poems (1994) 217 copie

New Selected Poems (1991) 171 copie

The Mercy: Poems (1999) 116 copie

Breath: Poems (2004) 108 copie

News of the World: Poems (2009) 89 copie

A Walk With Tom Jefferrson (1988) 63 copie

The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (Poets on Poetry) (1605) 57 copie

The Last Shift: Poems (2016) 47 copie

My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry (2016) 43 copie

One for the Rose: Poems (1981) 38 copie

Selected Poems (Selected Poems, Paper) (1984) 34 copie

Ashes: Poems new & old (1979) 33 copie

Not This Pig: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Program) (1968) 31 copie

They Feed They Lion and The Names of the Lost: Poems (1999) 29 copie

The Names of the Lost: Poems (1976) 27 copie

Don't Ask (Poets on Poetry) (1981) 27 copie

Sweet Will (1985) 26 copie

1933; poems (1974) 25 copie

They Feed They Lion: Poems (1972) 23 copie

7 years from somewhere: Poems (1979) 23 copie

Unselected Poems (1997) 19 copie

So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews (Poets on Poetry) (2002) 19 copie

On the Edge and Over: Poems; Old, Lost & New (1976) 6 copie

Stranger to Nothing: Selected Poems (2006) 6 copie

Ploughshares 104: Winter 2007-2008 (2007) — Guest Editor — 5 copie

Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (2004) 4 copie

Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Volume 3 (2004) 4 copie

5 Detroits (1970) 3 copie

Naming 3 copie

Earth, Stars, and Writers (The National Book Week Lectures) (1992) 3 copie

Pili's wall (1986) 3 copie

The Paris Review 92 1984 Summer (1984) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 64 (1959) — A cura di — 2 copie

New Season (1975) 2 copie

Character and Crisis: a Contemporary Reader (1966) 2 copie

Ploughshares Vol.14 No.4 (1989) 2 copie

Miasto marzeń : wybór wierszy (2013) 1 copia

Thistles (1970) 1 copia

Naming : a poem 1 copia

Set poemes 1 copia

Signs of Our Times An Astrological Look at the End of the 20th Century 1 copia

Rare Philip Levine / Not This Pig First Edition 1968 1 copia

Smoke 1 copia

Dreaming in Swedish 1 copia

Blue 1 copia

Dreaming in Swedish : three poems 1 copia

Cuatro poemas 1 copia

Moradian (2006) 1 copia

Ask For Nothing 1 copia

Smoke 1 copia

Prosta prawda : wiersze wybrane (2004) 1 copia

THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM (2008) 1 copia

First Light / A Festschrift for Philip Levine on His 85th Birthday (2013) 1 copia

Red Dust (1971) 1 copia

The New Yorker, Sept. 29, 1986 "Making Light of It" (1986) 1 copia

The Poem of Chalk 1 copia

Esplora le opere

Opere correlate

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Collaboratore — 1,261 copie

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 917 copie

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Collaboratore — 831 copie

Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Collaboratore — 768 copie

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Collaboratore — 751 copie

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Collaboratore — 389 copie

Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Collaboratore — 300 copie

The Best American Poetry 1999 (1999) — Collaboratore — 208 copie

The Best American Poetry 2003 (2003) — Collaboratore — 174 copie

American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Collaboratore — 162 copie

The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Collaboratore — 161 copie

This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Collaboratore — 160 copie

Nigger Heaven (1926) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 139 copie

The Best American Poetry 2008 (2008) — Collaboratore — 135 copie

The Best American Poetry 2009 (2009) — Collaboratore — 133 copie

The Essential Keats (1987) — A cura di — 129 copie

Emergency Kit (1996) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 108 copie

The Best American Poetry 2016 (2016) — Collaboratore — 103 copie

The Best Spiritual Writing 1998 (1998) — Collaboratore — 101 copie

The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Collaboratore — 95 copie

My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love (1998) — Collaboratore — 68 copie

The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Collaboratore — 48 copie

2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses (2010) — Collaboratore — 39 copie

The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 (2010) — Collaboratore — 37 copie

Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Collaboratore — 33 copie

Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age (1995) — Collaboratore — 30 copie

60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Collaboratore — 28 copie

The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (2008) — Collaboratore — 27 copie

About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Collaboratore — 26 copie

A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose (1993) — Collaboratore — 20 copie

The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Collaboratore — 16 copie

Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943 (2021) — Collaboratore — 10 copie

THOMAS MCGRATH: LIFE AND THE POEM (1987) — Collaboratore — 5 copie

Antaeus No. 15, Autumn 1974 - Special Translation Issue (1974) — Traduttore — 2 copie

Five points : a journal of literature & arts : vol. 7 no. 2 (2003) — Collaboratore — 2 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)

Utenti

Recensioni

The Last Shift: Poems di Philip Levine

The last volume from one of my favorite poets.

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markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |

The Simple Truth: Poems di Philip Levine

Very beautiful, very rich. Powerful and personal - I felt like I could hear his voice speaking directly to me.

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steve02476 | 1 altra recensione | Jan 3, 2023 |

My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry di Philip Levine

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.… (altro)

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archangelsbooks | Jan 5, 2021 |

The Simple Truth : Poems di Philip Levine

2009 (my attempt at a review can be found on the LibraryThing post linked)
http://www.librarything.com/topic/68641#1378994

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dchaikin | 1 altra recensione | Oct 4, 2020 |

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