Philip Levine





Philip Levine

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January 10, 1928 in Detroit, The United States

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Philip Levine (b. January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for over thirty years at the English Department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well. He is appointed to serve as the Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012.

Philip Levine grew up in industrial Detroit, the second of three sons and the first of identical twins of Jewish immigrant parents. His father, Harry Levine owned a used auto parts business, his mother Esther Priscol (Prisckulnick) Levine was a bookseller. When Levine was five years old, his father died. Growing up, he faced the anti-Semitism embodied by the p...more


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What Work Is
4.3 of 5 stars 430 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions
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The Simple Truth
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4.13 of 5 stars 413 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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New Selected Poems
4.37 of 5 stars 437 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
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Breath
3.96 of 5 stars 396 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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News of the World
3.85 of 5 stars 385 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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They Feed They Lion & The N...
4.26 of 5 stars 426 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1999
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The Mercy
3.89 of 5 stars 389 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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The Bread of Time: Toward a...
4.24 of 5 stars 424 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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Not This Pig
3.81 of 5 stars 381 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1982
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They Feed They Lion
4.51 of 5 stars 451 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1972
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“You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.”
Philip Levine

“I find you
in these tears, few,
useless and here at last.
Don't come back. ”
Philip Levine

“I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.”
Philip Levine

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