《工作是什么》的作者菲利普.莱文(Philip Levine)出生于1928年,来自美国底特律一个“蓝领”(干体力活的无产阶级)家庭,14岁就不得不到汽修厂和炼钢厂打工谋生。但他一直想当诗人,于是他一边上夜班,一边利用业余时间写诗,并用打工挣来的钱上大学,终于,1953他拿到了爱荷华大学的文学艺术硕士。 1991年,通过《工作是什...
你要从没有 干过什么事儿这样单纯,这样袒露, 不是因为你太年轻或者太愚笨, 不是因为你嫉妒乃至吝啬 或者不能哭泣在 另一个男人面前,不, 只是因为你不知道工作是什么。 WHAT WORK IS We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is—if you’re...
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Robert Matt Taylor on Philip Levine’sWhat Work Is I had been ready to give up on the whole enterprise as well, I told her—for an alarmingly long time, nothing I picked up seemed able to penetrate or point the way, a demoralizing experience indeed for someone who’s always balanced ...
The true poem is the poet's mind. —Ralph Waldo Emerson Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. —Stephen Spender Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. —Carl Sandburg ...
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Speaking personally, my main objection to a lot of the poetry being written today is that nothing is being done with sound and the visual. And even in Stephen’s talk just now I didn’t hear him say one word about sound. To me, the sound of a poem is at least as important as the...
"You will have to work at it, and it's not going to be something that I can just tell you. The dharma, the teaching, is not owned by anybody." Buddhism has been able to spread because there was no idea that it could be owned even by a language. Certain religious lan- guages ...
KNOWING WHAT WORK IS: WORKING AND THE WORKPLACE IN THE POETRY OF PHILIP LEVINEBECK, JOHN P.Midwestern Miscellany
Work and workers have been the subject of poetry since at least the Middle Ages. In the prologue...Bloch, Deborah P.Blackwell Publishing Ltd.Career Development Quarterly