Philip Levine, RIP

Philip Levine, dead at 87, in Fresno, where he spent a large portion of his teaching and writing life. He never left behind his childhood in Detroit, making harsh lyric out of the grease and muscle of a life in the guts of industry.
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And still alive! Jane Hirshfield, with her new book of intense and intelligent essays on the life of poetry--Ten Windows.
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RIP--Que Viva!
Life's beautiful if sometimes nearly unbearable rhythms....