Philip Levine, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, is known for his poignant and evocative poems that capture the essence of the working-class life. His collection of poems, "What Work Is," is a testament to his ability to capture the struggles and triumphs of the working-class. However, one...
A Conversation with Philip LevineChris Wyrick: Congratulations on the big prize! [The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for The Simple...TriQuarterlyTriQuarterlyTriquarterly
"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home." "The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry." "There'll always be working people in...
1962, 1975;Bicentennial Poetry Discussion,1976;The Poetry and Voice of Philip Levine,Caedmon, 1976;Hear Me,Watershed Tapes;Philip Levine,1986; andMark Turpinand Philip Levine Reading Their Poems in the Mumford Room,1997.
Detroit, Michigan, in 1928. He was known for his poems that explored the lives of working-class people and the struggles they faced. Levine was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2011 to 2012 and received numerous awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in ...
(for sovereignty never remains in the same hands), and who believe that the hegemony, like any other prize, should be held by those who first won this honour, or else by those who have rendered the most service to the Greeks, I think that the...
(6) But the fact that the fertility of the country of which I am speaking was set before the powerful as a common prize of war is confirmed by many things which have taken place even subsequent to the Trojan war. Even the Amazons took courage to attack it, aga...
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1987) Notable Works: “The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography” “What Work Is” See all related content Philip Levine (born January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died February 14, 2015, Fresno, California) was an American poet of urban working-class...
Philip Roth Gets National Book Award; At 90, Stanley Kunitz Wins the Poetry PrizeLinton Weeks
For his next work,American Pastoral(1997;film 2016), Roth was awarded aPulitzer Prize. The novel, about a middle-class couple whose daughter becomes a terrorist, is the first entry in the American Trilogy series, all three books of which are narrated by Zuckerman. The later installments are...