Philip Levine: The Mercy (English)

 
The ship that took my mother to Ellis Island  
Eighty-three years ago was named "The Mercy."  
She remembers trying to eat a banana  
without first peeling it and seeing her first orange 
in the hands of a young Scot, a seaman  
who gave her a bite and wiped her mouth for her  
with a red bandana and taught her the word, 
"orange," saying it patiently over and over.  
A long autumn voyage, the days darkening  
with the black waters calming as night came on,  
then nothing as far as her eyes could see and space 
without limit rushing off to the corners  
of creation. She prayed in Russian and Yiddish  
to find her family in New York, prayers  
unheard or misunderstood or perhaps ignored  
by all the powers that swept the waves of darkness  
before she woke, that kept "The Mercy" afloat  
while smallpox raged among the passengers  
and crew until the dead were buried at sea  
with strange prayers in a tongue she could not fathom. 
"The Mercy," I read on the yellowing pages of a book  
I located in a windowless room of the library  
on 42nd Street, sat thirty-one days  
offshore in quarantine before the passengers 
disembarked. There a story ends. Other ships  
arrived, "Tancred" out of Glasgow, "The Neptune" 
registered as Danish, "Umberto IV,"  
the list goes on for pages, November gives  
way to winter, the sea pounds this alien shore.  
Italian miners from Piemonte dig  
under towns in western Pennsylvania  
only to rediscover the same nightmare  
they left at home. A nine-year-old girl travels  
all night by train with one suitcase and an orange.  
She learns that mercy is something you can eat  
again and again while the juice spills over  
your chin, you can wipe it away with the back  
of your hands and you can never get enough.

Philip Levine: La Pitié (French)

 
Le bateau qui a porté ma mère à l'île d'Ellis Eighty-three il y a 
des années a été appelé "la pitié." Elle se rappelle d'essayer de 
manger une banane sans le premier écaillement il et de voir sa 
première orange dans les mains d'un jeune Scot, un marin qui lui a 
donné une morsure et essuie sa bouche pour elle avec un bandana rouge 
et enseigné lui le mot, "orange," la disant patiemment à plusieurs 
reprises. Un long voyage d'automne, les jours obscurcissant avec de 
l'eau noirs calmant pendant que la nuit avançait, puis rien dans la 
mesure où elle des yeux a pu voir et espacer sans limite se 
précipitant au loin aux coins de la création. Elle a prié dans le 
Russe et le Yiddish pour trouver sa famille à New York, unheard de 
prières ou a mal compris ou a peut-être ignoré par toutes les 
puissances qui ont balayé les vagues de l'obscurité avant qu'elle se 
soit réveillée, qui a gardé à flot "la pitié" tandis que la 
variole faisait rage parmi les passagers et l'équipage jusqu'à ce 
que les morts aient été enterrés en mer avec des prières étranges 
dans une langue qu'elle ne pourrait pas sonder. "la pitié," j'ai lu 
sur les pages de jaunissement d'un livre que j'ai localisé dans une 
salle sans fenêtres de la bibliothèque sur la quarante-deuxième 
rue, reposée trente et un jours en mer dans la quarantaine avant que 
les passagers aient débarqué. Là une histoire finit. D'autres 
bateaux sont arrivés, "Tancred" hors de Glasgow, "le Neptune" 
enregistré comme le danois, "Umberto IV," la liste continue pour des 
pages, novembre mène à l'hiver, livres de mer ce rivage étranger. 
Les mineurs italiens de Piemonte creusent sous des villes en 
Pennsylvanie occidentale pour redécouvrir seulement le même 
cauchemar ils à gauche à la maison. Une neuf-année-vieille fille 
voyage toute la nuit par chemin de fer avec une valise et une orange. 
Elle apprend que la pitié est quelque chose que tu peus manger à 
plusieurs reprises tandis que le jus se renverse au-dessus de votre 
menton, tu peus l'essuyer loin avec le dos de vos mains et tu peus ne 
jamais obtenir assez.

Philip Levine: Die Gnade (German)

 
Nahm vor, das Schiff, das meine Mutter zum Ellis Island Eighty-three 
Jahren wurde genannt "die Gnade." Sie erinnert sich zu versuchen, eine 
Banane ohne erste Schale zu essen es und ihre erste Orange in den 
Händen von einem jungen Scot, ein Matrose zu sehen, der ihr einen 
Bissen gab und ihrer Öffnung für sie mit einem roten bandana 
abwischt und ihr das Wort beibringt, "Orange,", sie geduldig sagend 
über und über. Eine lange Herbstreise, die Tage, die mit schwarzen 
beruhigenden Wasser sich verdunkeln, während Nacht, dann nichts 
anging, insoweit sie Augen ohne die Begrenzung sehen und sperren 
konnte, die weg zu den Ecken der Kreation hetzt. Sie betete in 
russisch und in Yiddish, um ihre Familie in New York, die ungehörten 
Gebete zu finden oder mißverstand oder ignorierte möglicherweise 
durch alle Energien, die die Wellen der Schwärzung fegten, bevor sie 
aufweckte, die "die Gnade" flott hielt, während Pocken unter den 
Passagieren und der Mannschaft raste, bis die Toten am Meer mit 
merkwürdigen Gebeten in einer Zunge begraben waren, die sie nicht 
fathom könnte. "die Gnade," las ich auf dem Branchenverzeichnis eines 
Buches, das ich in einem fensterlosen Raum der Bibliothek auf 42nd 
Straße lokalisierte, gesessen thirty-one Tage ablandig in der 
Quarantäne, bevor die Passagiere ausschifften. Dort beendet eine 
Geschichte. Andere Schiffe kamen, "Tancred" aus Glasgow heraus, "der 
Neptun an", der registriert wurde, wie Dänische, "Umberto IV," die 
Liste für Seiten, November nachgibt zum Winter, das Meer 
zerstößt dieses ausländische Ufer weitergeht. Italienische 
Bergmänner von Piemonte graben unter Städte in Westpennsylvania, um 
den gleichen Alptraum nur nach links wiederzuentdecken sie zu Hause. 
Ein neun-Jahr-altes Mädchen reist alle Nacht mit dem Zug mit einem 
Koffer und einer Orange. Sie erfährt, daß Gnade ist etwas, die Sie 
immer wieder essen können, während der Saft über Ihrem Kinn 
verschüttet wird, Sie können es mit der Rückseite Ihrer Hände weg 
abwischen und Sie können genug nie erhalten.

Philip Levine: A Mercê (Portuguese)

 
O navio que fêz exame de minha mãe ao console de Ellis Eighty-three 
anos há foi nomeado "a mercê." Recorda tentar comer uma banana sem 
primeira casca ele e ver sua primeira laranja nas mãos de um Scot 
novo, um seaman que lhe dê uma mordida e limpa sua boca para ela com 
um bandana vermelho e ensinado lhe a palavra, "laranja," dizendo a 
pacientemente repetidamente. Uma viagem longa do outono, os dias que 
escurecem-se com águas pretas que acalmam-se enquanto a noite se 
aproximou, então nada tanto quanto os olhos podia ver e espaçar sem 
limite que se apressa fora aos cantos da criação. Prayed no russian 
e no Yiddish para encontrar sua família em New York, unheard dos 
prayers ou entendeu mal ou talvez ignorou por todos os poders que 
varreram as ondas da escuridão antes que acordou, que manteve "a 
mercê" afloat quando o smallpox raged entre os passageiros e o grupo 
até que os mortos estiveram enterrados no mar com prayers estranhos 
em uma lingüeta que não poderia fathom. "a mercê," eu li nas 
páginas yellowing de um livro que eu encontrei em um quarto 
windowless da biblioteca na 42nd rua, sentado trinta e uns dias 
offshore no quarantine antes que os passageiros disembarked. Lá uma 
história termina. Outros navios chegaram, "Tancred" fora de Glasgow, 
"o Netuno" registado como o dinamarquês, "Umberto IV," a lista vai 
sobre para páginas, novembro dá a maneira ao inverno, as libras do 
mar esta costa estrangeira. Os mineiros italianos de Piemonte escavam 
sob cidades em Pensilvânia ocidental para rediscover somente à 
esquerda o mesmo nightmare eles no repouso. Uma menina nove-ano-velha 
viaja toda a noite pelo trem com um suitcase e uma laranja. Aprende 
que a mercê é algo que você pode comer repetidas vezes quando o 
suco derramar sobre seu queixo, você pode limpá-lo afastado com a 
parte traseira de suas mãos e você pode nunca começar bastantes.

Philip Levine: La Misericordia (Spanish)

 
La nave que llevó a mi madre a la isla de Ellis Eighty-three hace 
años fue nombrada "la misericordia." Ella recuerda intentar comer un 
plátano sin la primera peladura él y ver su primera naranja en las 
manos de un Scot joven, marinero que le dio una mordedura y limpiado 
su boca para ella con un bandana rojo y enseñado le la palabra, 
"naranja," diciéndola pacientemente repetidamente. Un viaje largo del 
otoño, los días que obscurecen con las aguas negras que calman 
mientras que se adelantó la noche, entonces nada por lo que ella los 
ojos podía ver y espaciar sin el límite que acometía apagado a las 
esquinas de la creación. Ella rogó en ruso y Yiddish para encontrar 
a su familia en Nueva York, unheard de los rezos o entendía mal o 
quizás no hizo caso por todas las energías que barrieron las ondas 
de la oscuridad antes de que ella despertara, que guardó "la 
misericordia" a flote mientras que la viruela rabió entre los 
pasajeros y el equipo hasta que enterraron a los muertos en el mar con 
rezos extraños en una lengüeta que ella no podría penetrar. "la 
misericordia," leí en las páginas que amarilleaban de un libro que 
localicé en un cuarto sin ventana de la biblioteca en la 42.a calle, 
sentado treinta y uno días costa afuera en cuarentena antes de que 
los pasajeros desembarcaran. Allí una historia termina. Otras naves 
llegaron, "Tancred" fuera de Glasgow, "el Neptuno" registrado como el 
danés, "Umberto IV," la lista se enciende para las páginas, 
noviembre lleva al invierno, las libras del mar esta orilla 
extranjera. Los mineros italianos de Piemonte cavan debajo de ciudades 
en Pennsylvania occidental para volver a descubrir solamente la misma 
pesadilla ellos a la izquierda en el país. Una nueve-año-vieja 
muchacha viaja toda la noche en tren con una maleta y una naranja. 
Ella aprende que la misericordia es algo que usted puede comer 
repetidas veces mientras que el jugo se derrama sobre su barbilla, 
usted puede limpiarla lejos con la parte posteriora de sus manos y 
usted puede nunca conseguir bastantes.

Philip Levine: The Mercy (Blogs)

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The Orange Couch Does Mad Men: S6E12, “The Quality of Mercy ... by Amanda Marcotte (2013/06/18 05:54)
Marc and I are both huge fans of “Rosemary's Baby”, which is, in my opinion, a true classic of feminist horror, even though it was directed by ye ol' child rapist Roman Polanski. So we're having a lot of fun with the dramatic ...
James Arthur, Natalie Diaz, and Tomas Q. Morin by admin (2013/06/05 20:54)
James Arthur, Natalie Diaz, and Tomas Q. Morin Monday, June 10 at 7:30 PM SPC at 1719 25th Street Host: Emmanuel Sigauke James Arthur's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, and The American Poetry Review. ... With Mari L'Esperance he has also just edited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine (Prairie Lights Books, 2013). http://www.tomasqmorin.com/. Laika In '57 Sputnik 2 carried ... have mercy upon the pronoun, I didn't get out—
poetrynight presents: poets | poetrynight by poetrynight (2013/05/28 23:18)
He is co-editor with Mari L'Esperance of the anthology, Coming Close: 40 Essays on Philip Levine. His poems have appeared in Slate, Threepenny Review, Boulevard, New England Review, and Narrative. The Land of Nod
Poets in the Kitchen: Jeff Friedman the food poet by Annelies (2013/04/29 01:00)
... an onion and then show them a series of onion poems. An orange is at the center of “The Mercy” by Philip Levine where his grandmother eats an orange for the first time and “A Simple Truth” has a potato at the center of it.
CALM THINGS: worthy of poetry by Shawna Lemay (2013/04/19 07:52)
The wonderful Stephen Berg of Grow Mercy - wrote this post about my book, Calm Things. I won't say any more about it here other than to whisper ... I'm sure I'll be talking more about it when I've finished the book, but just wanted to share the Philip Levine quotation that she begins chapter 5 with: "...our lives, any life, is worthy of poetry the experience of any ... How to bring that sort of living poetry to another life. How to live poetry.... But okay. Back to the dog. Who is all ...
'The Mercy: Poems book downloads', oliviahamdan's blog message ... by oliviahamdan (2013/03/19 02:01)
The Mercy: Poems book download. Download The Mercy: Poems The Mercy by Philip Levine. BARNES & NOBLE | Mercy by Lucille Clifton | Paperback, Hardcover Lucille Cliftonâ€™s poetry carries her deep concerns ...
Autograph Series Featuring Philip Levine, US Poet Laureate, 2011 ... by unknown (2013/02/28 01:00)
Autograph Series Featuring Philip Levine, US Poet Laureate, 2011-2012 with special guest Tony Hoagland - Southwest School of Art contact Lucinda Vela-Wick at 28-Feb-13 7:00 PM calendar event on theArtsFund. ... Levine has published numerous books of poetry, most recently News of the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010); Breath(2004); The Mercy (1999); The Simple Truth (1994), which won the Pulitzer Prize; What Work Is (1991), which won the National Book ...
Announcing the Winners of the 2012 RHP Award Series | Red Hen ... by William (2013/01/15 17:53)
The Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, the RHP Short Story Award, and the RHP Poetry Award are given each year for, respectively, an unpublished original poetry collection, short story, and individual poem. Winners receive publication and an ... Previous judges include Claduia Rankine, B.H. Fairchild, Nick Flynn, Wanda Coleman, Philip Levine, Eloise Klein Healy, David St. John, Dorianne Laux, Thomas Lux, and Alicia Ostriker. Red Hen is delighted to bring these ...
MDRansom: GREETINGS 2013 by mdransom (2013/01/09 13:19)
This web log is dedicated to reporting theatrical reviews and news from in and around New York City as well as poetry and prose composed by yours truly. Welcome. ... I purchased two volumes of Philip Levine poetry. In one is ... who advised me never to write again for all that flowed from my pen was pain. My words, plucked from the air like breath meandering and undisciplined never exhibit Mercy at my own expense and form awkward sentences which often make ...
Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival Presents Bruce Smith and ... by Thom Francis (2012/12/14 07:59)
Here is the information on the reading and workshop from Phillip Levine: ... He is the author of six books of poems, The Common Wages, Silver and Information (National Poetry Series, selected by Hayden Carruth), Mercy Seat, The Other Lover, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Songs for Two Voices, and most recently Devotions, a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the LA Times ...
AlYoung.org » Blog Archive » WOVEN VOICES: Poets Gloria Vando ... by Al (2012/11/25 05:00)
... two Billee Murray Denny Prizes; River Styx International Poetry Award (Philip Levine, judge); and others. Her work is in magazines, texts, anthologies, and CDs, including the 2007 Grammy-nominated Poetry on Record: 98 ...
Upcoming Red Hen readings, LA! NY! | Kate Gale: A Mind Never ... by kategale (2012/09/08 12:36)
Red Hen Press at Poets House September 15th, 2012 4:00pm. More Red Hen Press Events in. New York City Philip Levine Born in Detroit, Michigan, Philip Levine graduated from Wayne University (now Wayne State ...
Dodge Poetry Festival Announces Complete Schedule and Debut of ... by admin (2012/08/31 12:30)
Poets returning to the Festival include former U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine (2011-12) and the newly appointed U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (2012- ), Pulitzer Prize-winner C. K. Williams, poet-musician Kurtis Lamkin, National Book ..... He has published numerous books of poetry, most recently News of the World (2010); Breath (2004); The Mercy (1999); The Simple Truth (1994, Pulitzer Prize), What Work Is (1991, National Book Award), among others.
Poetry: Philip Levine, 2012 Festival Poet | Geraldine R. Dodge ... by Martin Farawell, Director, Poetry Program (2012/08/16 15:08)
Philip Levine is one of those poets whose clarity of vision is so fierce his technique often goes unnoticed or uncommented upon. We assume the narratives and character portraits in Levine's poems compel us forward because ...
Five poems by Stevie Edwards – Used Furniture Review by Used Furniture Review (2012/08/10 09:26)
Mercy, Me. I brood my night into a corner of subside, subside. Daniel says we are better than what we are treated as— blacksheep, we sleep stagger, turning wine into silt stories, a drunkard's miracle. I try to remember kindness: his knock on the door saying you've got to get out of this apartment. I will have to nuzzle ... and Philip Levine (which makes them even more loveable!) or retreating into a receptacle of dirty laundry walled with piles of books, all asking the same ...
Philip Levine at Zócalo Public Square in Fresno - Al Young by Al (2012/07/26 14:45)
U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine talks about social isolation, democracy, and beer drinking on Lake Erie ... U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine thinks that democracy in America today is “unhealthy” and “a wreck.” Yet in a ...
Balance. | SouthwestDesertLover by southwestdesertlover (2012/06/19 20:24)
Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy” - Philip Levine. * * *. Travertine Deposits of Havasu Falls – Supai, AZ. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WME7V5_Travertine_Deposits_of_Havasu_Falls_Supai_AZ. * * *. The Havasu ...
A student of poetry: Thrall, by Natasha Trethewey « Interrupting Infinity by St.-L (2012/06/15 17:05)
In the case of reading a third, it's usually an act of mercy, in the hopes that I was merely being cynical, or hypercritical in my readings of the first two. ... I assume that the socialist worker's union party poet Philip Levine was awarded the Laureateship because the Republicans were pushing cataclysmically destructive legislation or other nefarious time bombs through the system, and were thus not paying attention (or welcomed the distraction of ineffectual intellectual ...
Poem Born From Heart !!!!: Philip Levine Quotes by Philosopher (2012/05/27 21:25)
Philip Levine Quotes. "American poets have been criticized for anything you can think of. For being too English, recently for not being English enough." "Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it." "But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet." "But most commonly, it's one poem ... have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet." "I write what's given me to write." "I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy.
The Poetry of Philip Levine | workingtheater by theworkingtheater (2012/04/25 14:33)
Working Theater presents a night of the Poetry of Philip Levine with Gene Gillette, André De Shields, and Lisa Ramirez, and Pulitzer-Prize winning Jeffrey Eugenides on May 7th at 7pm. Philip Levine's poetry explores and extols the world of working ... What Work Is, News of the World, One for the Rose, Breath, and The Mercy are only a few titles of Mr. Levine's twenty-one published collections of poetry. Guest reader Jeffrey Eugenides won Pulitzer-Prize in 2003 for his ...
Philip Levine's world of sound and memory | Hyam Plutzik Poetry by admin (2012/04/24 14:13)
So I wander / these woods half sightless while / a west wind picks up in the trees / clustered above. The pines make / a music like no other, rising and / falling like a distant surf at night / that calms the darkness before / first light.
The Mercy Poems (9780375701351) Philip Levine - 3lv3x6f's Space by unknown (2012/04/24 03:37)
Philip Levine's new collection of poems (his first since The Simple Truth was awarded the Pulitzer Prize) is a book of journeys fotosex: the necessary ones that each of us takes from innocence to experience, from youth to age, ...
Isinglass by me (2012/04/13 16:44)
... coming out here – and then, after telling Eileen I can't come to the Poem of the Month that she's presenting – Philip Levine's 'The Mercy' – slip away. It's a feeling not unlike the one I get when I finish a taxi shift . . . free at last.
The Simple Truth: Philip Levine Speaks about Life, Libraries, and ... by admin (2012/03/13 12:38)
“I'm learning about the power of poetry,” said Philip Levine about his time thus far as the 18th U.S. Poet Laureate, a position he was elected to earlier this fall. So what has ... He read from a range of books including The Mercy and 7 Years from Somewhere, flipping through the pages until he found something that felt right, “I don't plan a reading ahead of time,” he said when he first took the stage, then jokingly added, “because I don't plan anything.” His confession, at ...
Astrology: Philip Levine (poet), date of birth: 1928/01/10, Horoscope ... by unknown (2012/03/06 08:31)
Astrology: Philip Levine (poet), born January 10, 1928 in Detroit (MI), Horoscope, birth chart, free excerpts of astrological portrait, photo, and biography. 45520 Free ... The Mercy, Random House, Inc., 1999, ISBN 9780375701351. Unselected ...
Philip Levine Reads "The Mercy" | Poets and Writers by jhartig (2012/03/01 01:00)
Philip Levine Reads "The Mercy". Posted 3.01.12. Log in to Save · Log in to Send. Play; Pause; Stop; Restart; Adjust volume. Philip Levine Reads "The Mercy". levine_the_mercy_2.mp3. share. Facebook Like · Google Plus One · StumbleUpon ...
Q&A: Philip Levine's American Lyric | Poets and Writers by spettypiece (2012/02/29 01:00)
Poet laureate Philip Levine speaks about his plans for the position and the range of influences on his work through the years. ... Podcast. Philip Levine Reads "The Mercy" ...
The Millions : My Neighbor, the Poet Laureate by Michael Bourne (2012/02/17 08:06)
Poets & Writers magazine has posted my interview with my Brooklyn neighbor and U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine, along with a lovely recording of him reading his poem “The Mercy.” It's worth a listen.
Galatea Resurrects #17 (A Poetry Engagement): BOOKS by NICK ... by EILEEN (2011/12/20 19:45)
For example, I was elated to hear that Philip Levine was recently appointed U.S. Poet Laureate, recalling reviewing his collection What Work Is when it came out and making sure I had a first edition of The Mercy in my ...
Poet Of The People | JN News by Newsroom (2011/11/09 07:29)
“Philip Levine is one of America's great narrative poets,” says James Billington, the Library of Congress librarian who made the appointment. “His plainspoken lyricism has, for half a century, championed the art of ... Other titles include On The Edge (1963), The Names of the Lost (1976), 7 Years From Somewhere (1979), A Walk with Tom Jefferson (1988), New Selected Poems (1991) and The Mercy (1999). Nonfiction projects include The Bread of Time: Toward an ...
High Holy Days — Poetry Reading List | Chirga d'Yoma: The ... by blumofe (2011/10/12 07:06)
By popular request, here are the books from which I selected the poetry that I offered on the Yamim Noraim. All collections are ... -Philip Levine — The Mercy — Knopf, 1999 — Levine was just appointed as US Poet Laureate.
The Drunkard By Philip Levine - Poems | Globala by admin (2011/09/23 09:16)
The Drunkard By Philip Levine. September 23rd, 2011 in Philip Levine, Poems On / About: Tiger. from St. Ambrose. He fears the tiger standing in his way. The tiger takes its time, it smiles and growls. Like moons, the two blank eyes tug at his ...
2011 Poet Laureate Paul Levine: Why it Matters | contempartnotes by rhutch322 (2011/08/17 15:28)
Who is Philip Levine? To get an idea of Philip Levine you just have to read one of his poems. He is the quintessential poet of the blue collar working class; gritty, down to earth and above all, real. His verses are filled with the concrete power of simple ... From the numerous books of poetry are the noteworthy titles: On the Edge (1963), Ashes: Poems New and Old (1979), 7 Years From Somewhere (1979), Breath (2004), Mercy (1999), and News of the World (2010).
Philip Levine: A Poet for Regular Folks | Which Silk Shirt by Lauren Camp (2011/08/16 08:12)
In a poem called Reinventing America in The Mercy, Levine writes about his Uncle Nathan, “wiry in his boxer's shorts and high-topped boots, / chewing on a cigar, the one dead eye catching / the overhead light while he ...
Philip Levine Quotes - | Quotes Globala by admin (2011/08/15 08:48)
Philip Levine Quotes. The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. Philip Levine Quotes. I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I ...
Blue Eyed Ennis: New Poet Laureate for USA Philip Levine by Philomena Ewing (2011/08/14 17:00)
"The work of Philip Levine, is welcome because it radiates a heat of a sort not often felt in today's poetry, that transmitted by grease, soil, factory light, cheap and honest food, sweat, low pay, cigarettes and second shifts. It is a plainspoken ...
New Poet Laureate Philip Levine's 'Absolute Truth' | Michigan Radio by editor (2011/08/14 13:27)
"The truth of poetry is not the truth of history," says Philip Levine, the newly-named poet laureate of the United States. Levine is 83 years old. ... sweetness and affection and courage and strength," he says. These people made it into his poetry as well, as in the poem "He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do" from his 1999 collection Mercy, where Levine writes about "My friend Frankie," who,. If you asked for a smoke or a light, He'd hand you whatever he ...
Shaped By My Life: Poet Laureate, Philip Levine by Shaped By My Life (2011/08/12 09:18)
What I love about Philip Levine being named, is that he is more terse than verbose, eloquent with his diction, wanting poetry to reach the masses; to reach more than a person who sits quietly reading poetry to him/herself. In The New York ... "My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote. Excerpt from The Mercy: A nine-year-old ...
Congrats to Philip Levine, our new Poet Laureate | Solace in a Book by Ellen Beals (2011/08/12 07:09)
But if you really want to learn about Philip Levine, read his books: New Selected Poems, What Work Is, The Simple Truth, Unselected Poems, The Mercy, Breath and News of the World are just the latest of his many titles.
Congratulations to Philip Levine, the next Poet Laureate by David Ingle (2011/08/12 04:00)
On Wednesday, August 10, the Library of Congress announced that Philip Levine will be the next poet laureate, succeeding W.S. Merwin. Levine is a longtime friend of The Georgia Review, having published over twenty ...
Can you taste what I'm saying? The simple truths of Philip Levine ... by Jenni (2011/08/11 15:52)
The Library of Congress has just announced that Philip Levine will succeed W.S. Merwin to the post of Poet Laureate Consultant this October. Poetry has always ... She learns that mercy is something you can eat again and ...
PHILIP LEVINE, Newest US Poet Laureate - Al Young by Al (2011/08/09 22:46)
Philip Levine was not expecting to be the new poet laureate of the United States. “It just wasn't something I thought ... How can anyone not love the people-friendly, humanity-championing poetry of Philip Levine? — Al Young,
The Criticism That Changed My Life - She Writes by Marisel Vera (2011/06/08 18:30)
Cristina told us how whenever she is at an impasse in her writing, if she turned to a volume of poems, somehow she would be sure to open to a page where a word or phrase would catch her imagination and inspire her writing. This exercise also has the additional benefit of helping to ... I chose WHAT WORK IS and THE MERCY by Phillip Levine to help me understand how a man feels working at a menial job. To gain better insight into the Puerto Rican male, I relied ...
ad winans | 10 questions - Outlaw Poetry Network by Monsieur K. (2010/12/30 02:13)
I write because I'm at the mercy of the demons inside me. I'm just a caretaker for their voices. FCR: For ... I also published a few academic poets like Philip Levine and Josephine Miles. The only criteria I had was the poem had ...
drunks, liars, and self centered people: Philip Levine by Michele Fambrough (2010/02/11 13:16)
Philip Levine "I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others." Philip Levine I like these poems. I think Levine's poem are very teachable and easy to read.
Robert Dana 1929-2010 - News - Cornell College by Mike Plagge (2010/02/08 08:57)
The writer who revived the North American Review in the 1960s and went on to serve as Iowa's Poet Laureate from 2004 through 2008, Robert Dana, died on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, at Mercy Hospice in Iowa City. ... Dana received his M.A. from The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1954, where he studied with Robert Lowell and John Berryman and was part of a group of writers that included Donald Justice, Henri Coulette, Jane Cooper, and Philip Levine.
One Poet's Notes: Reading Philip Levine at Mother's Day by Edward Byrne (2009/05/08 09:52)
As the Mother's Day weekend is upon us, I'd like to suggest readers revisit Philip Levine's title poem, “The Mercy,” from a collection published in 1999. Levine includes a dedication to his mother at the beginning of the book, ...
Blog of Myself: Philip Levine's The Mercy by Warzechaj (2009/04/13 09:08)
Just finished reading Philip Levine's The Mercy, an incredible book of poems. It was written in the years following his receipt of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award (so you know they're going to be pretty good.
J'S THEATER: Poem: Philip Levine by John K (2009/04/03 13:07)
We stand in the rain in a long line / waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. / You know what work is--if you're / old enough to read this you know what / work is, although you may not do it. / Forget you. This is about waiting,
Philip Levine Biography - ariegr1′s blog - Edublogs by ariegr1 (2009/03/11 21:04)
A Walk with Tom Jefferson (1988) New Selected Poems (1991) What Work Is: Poems (1991) The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994) The Simple Truth : Poems (1994) Smoke (1997) Mercy (1999). Tags: 5 Comments so far ↓. natalieegr1 // Mar 17, 2009 at 11:35 pm. After reading several of Philip Levine's poems and reading about his writing style and personal life at , I came to the conclusion that he has several similarities to Diane Wakoski. Both value ...
Andrew's Mormon Literature Year in Review, Part III: Poetry and ... by motleyvision (2009/03/10 07:16)
Neil Aitken's debut collection, The Lost Country of Sight, won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Aitken, a graduate of BYU, is currently a ... Among the most memorable were Darin Cozzens' “Reap in Mercy” (Irreantum, 2008), Joshua Foster's “The Newlyweds” (Dialogue, Summer 2008), Jack Harrell's “Calling and Election” (Irreantum, 2008), and Larry T. Menlove's “Who Brought Forth This Christmas Demon” (Dialogue, Fall 2008). Cozzens teaches at Surry Community ...
Dr. H's Classes: My favorite poem by Philip Levine by Joyce C. Tingle Hollingsworth (2009/01/16 15:36)
Eighty-three years ago was named "The Mercy." / She remembers trying to eat a banana / without first peeling it and seeing her first orange / in the hands of a young Scot, a seaman / who gave her a bite and wiped her mouth ...
One Poet's Notes: Sonny Rollins and Philip Levine by Edward Byrne (2008/09/07 10:22)
When I reviewed Philip Levine's The Mercy in the first issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review back in the fall of 1999, I concluded my comments with a quote from one of the poems, “The Unknowable,” a tribute to jazz saxophonist ...
3quarksdaily: Friday Poem by Jim Culleny (2008/09/05 05:30)
A child wakens in a cold apartment. / The windows are frosted. Outside he hears / words rising from the streets, words he cannot / understand, and then the semis gear down / for the traffic light on Houston. He sleeps
One Poet's Notes: Fond of Fonts: The (Type)Face of Poetry by Edward Byrne (2008/06/21 09:29)
For example, when taking a poetry collection at random from one of my office shelves, I observe the following text at the end of Philip Levine's Breath (published by Knopf), a collection that I reviewed favorably upon its release: ... For instance, although The Mercy, which appeared just prior to Breath, contains the same Méridien font, immediately previous collections in Levine's chronology—The Simple Truth and What Work Is—share an alternative choice described as ...
The Olives of Oblivion: Apricots by Carl Adamshick by support independent booksellers in your neighborhood and on the web (2008/05/30 20:37)
These ragged, hand-made volumes were filled with strange clip-art and colorful block prints, and showcased emerging poets such as Frank Stanford, Charles Simic, Philip Levine, John Haines, Sharon Olds, and just about anyone else who struck ... This should be the pilgrimage. The touching of a source. This is what sanctifies. This pleading. This mercy. I want to be a pilgrim to everyone, close to the inaccuracies, the astringent dislikes, the wayward peace, the private
Santa Barbara Poetry Conference March 2008 | art predator by artpredator (2008/03/25 16:55)
Philip Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1928. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, most recently Breath (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004). His other poetry collections include The Mercy (1999); The Simple Truth (1994), ...
One Poet's Notes: Philip Levine on His 80th Birthday by Edward Byrne (2008/01/09 23:02)
As I mentioned in my review of Breath (2004) that appeared in “One Poet's Notes” last January: “Perhaps no other contemporary poet has exhibited as large a cast of characters in his or her poetry as Philip Levine has in his heartfelt elegiac lyrics concerning personal relations, as well as in the eloquent emotional reflections on historical ... I also reviewed his previous collection, The Mercy (1999), in the initial issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review (Fall/Winter 1999-2000).
Ellen Bryant Voigt- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More by unknown (2007/10/15 02:45)
She has also contributed photography for Kathleen Pierce's book of poetry, Mercy (1991). Voigt's earlier work ... More recently, Philip Levine noted that her poems "are driven forward by lyrical restraint and by a ferocity of attention... Her writing ...
One Poet's Notes: Philip Levine: BREATH by Edward Byrne (2007/01/29 23:53)
When I reviewed Philip Levine's The Mercy in the first issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review back in the fall of 1999, I concluded my comments with a quote from one of the poems, “The Unknowable,” a tribute to jazz saxophonist ...
【POETRY】The Mercy--Philip Levine - ignotum per ignocius - 無名小站 by unknown (2006/08/27 03:38)
The ship that took my mother to Ellis Island eighty-three years ago was named "The Mercy." She remembers trying to eat a banana without first peeling it and seeing her first orange in the hand of a young Scot, a seaman who ...
Church of the Masses by Barbara (2005/03/14 09:19)
When you have Emily as the standard, most other attempts at poetry are mostly embarrassing in their obviousness. Still, the list is a useful thing to have. We give a similar list (of the ... Philip Levine - The Mercy C.S. Lewis - Till We Have Faces Torgny Lindgren - Light Robert Lowell - Lord Weary's Castle Paul Mariani - Salvage Operations Francois Mauriac - Viper's Tangle Alice McDermott - Charming Billy Thomas Merton - Collected Poems Vassar Miller - If I Had ...
The Wondering Minstrels: Broadway -- Mark Doty by Sitaram (2003/02/16 05:53)
(From My Alexandria, published by University of Illinois Press.) My Alexandria (1993), was chosen by Philip Levine for the National Poetry Series. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award and Britain's T.S. Eliot Prize, and ...
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Call It Music Poem Philip Levine Poems by love poems (2002/01/31 17:00)
Some days I catch a rhythm, almost a song / in my own breath. I'm alone here / in Brooklyn Heights, late morning, the sky / above the St. George Hotel clear, clear / for New York, that is. The radio playing / “Bird Flight,” Parker in his California
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The Mercy: Poems by Philip Levine - Open Products by The Mercy: Poems (Hardcover) (1999/06/16 16:33)
Philip Levine's new collection of poems (his first since The Simple Truth was awarded the Pulitzer Prize) is a book of journeys: the necessary ones that each of us takes from innocence to experience, from youth to age, from ...
The Mercy: Poems von Philip Levine - Universal-Datenbank by rkclaps@aol.com (1999/04/21 15:47)
Over the last four decades, Philip Levine has earned a reputation as America's consummate blue-collar bard--a kind of postindustrial Walt Whitman, albeit one with a taste for surrealism and bebop.

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