Philip Levine (1928–2015)

Auteur de What Work Is

57+ oeuvres 1,737 utilisateurs 13 critiques 9 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins

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Œuvres de Philip Levine

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What Work Is (1991) 405 exemplaires

The Simple Truth: Poems (1994) 217 exemplaires

New Selected Poems (1991) 171 exemplaires

The Mercy: Poems (1999) 116 exemplaires

Breath: Poems (2004) 108 exemplaires

News of the World: Poems (2009) 89 exemplaires

A Walk With Tom Jefferrson (1988) 63 exemplaires

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

The Last Shift: Poems (2016) 47 exemplaires

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

One for the Rose: Poems (1981) 38 exemplaires

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

Ashes: Poems new & old (1979) 33 exemplaires

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

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

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

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

Sweet Will (1985) 26 exemplaires

1933; poems (1974) 25 exemplaires

They Feed They Lion: Poems (1972) 23 exemplaires

7 years from somewhere: Poems (1979) 23 exemplaires

Unselected Poems (1997) 19 exemplaires

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

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

Stranger to Nothing: Selected Poems (2006) 6 exemplaires

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

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

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

5 Detroits (1970) 3 exemplaires

Naming 3 exemplaires

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

Pili's wall (1986) 3 exemplaires

The Paris Review 92 1984 Summer (1984) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 64 (1959) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires

New Season (1975) 2 exemplaires

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

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

Miasto marzeń : wybór wierszy (2013) 1 exemplaire

Thistles (1970) 1 exemplaire

Naming : a poem 1 exemplaire

Set poemes 1 exemplaire

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

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

Smoke 1 exemplaire

Dreaming in Swedish 1 exemplaire

Blue 1 exemplaire

Dreaming in Swedish : three poems 1 exemplaire

Cuatro poemas 1 exemplaire

Moradian (2006) 1 exemplaire

Ask For Nothing 1 exemplaire

Smoke 1 exemplaire

Prosta prawda : wiersze wybrane (2004) 1 exemplaire

THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM (2008) 1 exemplaire

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

Red Dust (1971) 1 exemplaire

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

The Poem of Chalk 1 exemplaire

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Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Contributeur — 770 exemplaires

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The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributeur — 391 exemplaires

Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Contributeur — 301 exemplaires

The Best American Poetry 1999 (1999) — Contributeur — 208 exemplaires

The Best American Poetry 2003 (2003) — Contributeur — 174 exemplaires

American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributeur — 162 exemplaires

The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Contributeur — 161 exemplaires

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

Nigger Heaven (1926) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 139 exemplaires

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The Best American Poetry 2009 (2009) — Contributeur — 133 exemplaires

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Emergency Kit (1996) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 108 exemplaires

The Best American Poetry 2016 (2016) — Contributeur — 103 exemplaires

The Best Spiritual Writing 1998 (1998) — Contributeur — 101 exemplaires

The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Contributeur — 95 exemplaires

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

The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires

2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses (2010) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires

The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 (2010) — Contributeur — 38 exemplaires

Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires

Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age (1995) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires

60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires

The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (2008) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires

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

THOMAS MCGRATH: LIFE AND THE POEM (1987) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires

Antaeus No. 15, Autumn 1974 - Special Translation Issue (1974) — Traducteur — 2 exemplaires

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

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Nom canonique: Levine, Philip
Date de naissance: 1928-01-10
Date de décès: 2015-02-14
Sexe: male
Nationalité: USA
Lieu de naissance: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Lieu du décès: Fresno, California, USA
Cause du décès: pancreatic cancer
Lieux de résidence: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Études: Wayne State University (BA | 1950 | MA | 1954)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA | 1957)
Professions: dichter
Relations: Cohen, Andrea (student)
Organisations: California State University, Fresno (professor)
Prix et distinctions: 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) (tout afficher 7)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1997)

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The Last Shift: Poems par Philip Levine

The last volume from one of my favorite poets.

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markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |

The Simple Truth: Poems par 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 autre critique | Jan 3, 2023 |

My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry par 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.… (plus d'informations)

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archangelsbooks | Jan 5, 2021 |

The Simple Truth : Poems par 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 autre critique | Oct 4, 2020 |

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