Back to the present. On August 9, the Library of Congress named Philip Levine to the one-year position. He succeeds W. S. Merwin. Mr. Levine was born in Detroit in 1928 and has used his poetry to examine blue-collar life. He was a student of the Detroit public school system and went on to study at Wayne University. After graduation, Levine worked a number of industrial jobs in, you guessed it, auto factories. He wrote in his off hours. In 1953 he studied at the University of Iowa, eventually earning his MFA degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He published his first collection of poems, On the Edge in 1963 and has been writing ever since. He taught for many years at California State University, Fresno, and has served as Distinguished Poet in Residence for the Creative Writing Program at New York University. He's now retired from teaching and currently divides his time between Brooklyn, NY and Fresno, CA.
Other collections by Philip Levine:
- Not This Pig (1968)
- They Feed the Lion (1973)
- The Names of the Lost (1975); won the 1977 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets
- 7 Years from Somewhere (1979); won the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Ashes: Poems New and Old (1979); received the National Book Critics Circle award and the first American Book Award for Poetry
- New Selected Poems (1991)
- What Work Is (1991); won the National Book Award
- The Simple Truth (1994); won the Pulitzer Prize
- The Mercy (1999)
- Breath (2004)
- News of the World (2010)
- The Bread of Time: toward an autobiography (1994)
- Don't Ask (1981)
- So Ask: essays, conversations, and interviews (2002)
- The Essential Keats (1987) - editor
- Off the Map: selected poems of Gloria Fuertes (1984) - translated; co-edited with Ada Long
- Tarumba: the selected poems of Jaime Sabines (2007) - translated; co-edited with Ernesto Trejo
My heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Levine.
Happy reading,
Angela
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