Philip Levine | The Poetry Foundation
网页Philip Levine was one of the leading poetic voices of his generation, “a large, ironic Whitman of the industrial heartland,” according to Edward Hirsch. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Levine was born and raised in industrial Detroit, where he began working in the auto factories at the age of 14.
Philip Levine (poet) - Wikipedia
网页Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well.
About Philip Levine - Academy of American Poets
网页The author of numerous award-winning poetry collections, Philip Levine was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2000. In 2011, he was named the 18th U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress, and in 2013, he received the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art of poetry.
Philip Levine, a Poet of Grit, Sweat and Labor, Dies at 87
网页2015年2月16日 · Philip Levine, a former United States poet laureate whose work was vibrantly, angrily and often painfully alive with the sound, smell and sinew of heavy manual labor, died on Saturday morning at...
Philip Levine | Biography, Poetry & Awards | Britannica
网页Philip Levine (born January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died February 14, 2015, Fresno, California) was an American poet of urban working-class life. Levine was of Russian Jewish descent. He studied at Wayne University (now Wayne State University), Detroit (B.A., 1950; M.A., 1955), and the University of Iowa (M.F.A., 1957).
Philip Levine - Poetry Archive
网页Biography. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Philip Levine grew up in industrial Detroit during the Great Depression of the 1930s. In The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography Levine deals with his experiences as a factory worker, his family and friends, his mentors John Berryman and Yvor Winters, and his fascination with the Spanish Civil ...
US poet laureate Philip Levine dies at age 87 | AP News
网页2015年2月15日 · FRESNO, California (AP) — Philip Levine, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose intimate portraits of blue-collar life were grounded in personal experience and political conscience, died Saturday. Levine was 87. Levine, the country’s poet laureate in 2011-2012, died at his home in California of pancreatic and liver cancer, his wife said Sunday.
Former U.S. poet laureate Philip Levine dies at 87 - PBS
网页2015年2月15日 · Philip Levine, a former auto worker turned acclaimed poet, died Saturday. He was 87. His death was caused by complications from pancreatic cancer, the New York Times reported. Levine was perhaps...
Philip Levine, Who Found Poetry On Detroit's Assembly Lines, Dies …
网页2015年2月15日 · Philip Levine revealed the poetry in the lives working people, and especially the people and places of his youth — in the auto factories and working class homes of urban Detroit.
Philip Levine: Essential American Poets - Poetry Foundation
网页View Audio Transcript. Recordings of Philip Levine, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded September 13, 2007, New York, NY. Listen to Donald Hall's selection of classic American poets reading from their work. These recordings are available as the result of a collaboration between US and UK poet laureates Donald Hall and Andrew Motion.