Philip Levine (1928–2015)

Auteur van 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 toon meer 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) toon minder

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What Work Is (1991) 405 exemplaren

The Simple Truth: Poems (1994) 217 exemplaren

New Selected Poems (1991) 171 exemplaren

The Mercy: Poems (1999) 116 exemplaren

Breath: Poems (2004) 108 exemplaren

News of the World: Poems (2009) 89 exemplaren

A Walk With Tom Jefferrson (1988) 63 exemplaren

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

The Last Shift: Poems (2016) 47 exemplaren

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

One for the Rose: Poems (1981) 38 exemplaren

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

Ashes: Poems new & old (1979) 33 exemplaren

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

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

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

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

Sweet Will (1985) 26 exemplaren

1933; poems (1974) 25 exemplaren

They Feed They Lion: Poems (1972) 23 exemplaren

7 years from somewhere: Poems (1979) 23 exemplaren

Unselected Poems (1997) 19 exemplaren

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

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

Stranger to Nothing: Selected Poems (2006) 6 exemplaren

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

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

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

5 Detroits (1970) 3 exemplaren

Naming 3 exemplaren

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

Pili's wall (1986) 3 exemplaren

The Paris Review 92 1984 Summer (1984) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 64 (1959) — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren

New Season (1975) 2 exemplaren

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

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

Miasto marzeń : wybór wierszy (2013) 1 exemplaar

Thistles (1970) 1 exemplaar

Naming : a poem 1 exemplaar

Set poemes 1 exemplaar

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

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

Smoke 1 exemplaar

Dreaming in Swedish 1 exemplaar

Blue 1 exemplaar

Dreaming in Swedish : three poems 1 exemplaar

Cuatro poemas 1 exemplaar

Moradian (2006) 1 exemplaar

Ask For Nothing 1 exemplaar

Smoke 1 exemplaar

Prosta prawda : wiersze wybrane (2004) 1 exemplaar

THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM (2008) 1 exemplaar

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

Red Dust (1971) 1 exemplaar

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

The Poem of Chalk 1 exemplaar

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Gangbare naam: Levine, Philip
Geboortedatum: 1928-01-10
Overlijdensdatum: 2015-02-14
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Plaats van overlijden: Fresno, California, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden: pancreatic cancer
Woonplaatsen: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Opleiding: Wayne State University (BA | 1950 | MA | 1954)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA | 1957)
Beroepen: dichter
Relaties: Cohen, Andrea (student)
Organisaties: California State University, Fresno (professor)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: 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) (toon alle 7)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1997)

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The Last Shift: Poems door Philip Levine

The last volume from one of my favorite poets.

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markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |

The Simple Truth: Poems door 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 andere bespreking | Jan 3, 2023 |

My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry door 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.… (meer)

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archangelsbooks | Jan 5, 2021 |

The Simple Truth : Poems door 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 andere bespreking | Oct 4, 2020 |

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