Philip Levine: The Turning (English)

 
Unknown faces in the street  
And winter coming on. I  
Stand in the last moments of  
The city, no more a child,  
Only a man, -- one who has  
Looked upon his own nakedness  
Without shame, and in defeat  
Has seen nothing to bless.  
Touched once, like a plum, I turned  
Rotten in the meat, or like  
The plum blossom I never  
Saw, hard at the edges, burned  
At the first entrance of life,  
And so endured, unreckoned,  
Untaken, with nothing to give.  
The first Jew was God; the second  
Denied him; I am alive.

Philip Levine: La Rotation (French)

 
Visages inconnus en rue et hiver avançant. Je ne me tiens dans les 
derniers moments de la ville, plus un enfant, seulement un homme, -- 
un qui a considéré sa propre nudité sans honte, et dans la défaite 
n'a vu rien à bénir. Touché une fois, comme une prune, m'ai tourné 
putréfié dans la viande, ou comme la fleur de prune je n'ai jamais 
vu, dur aux bords, brûlés à la première entrée de la vie, et 
ainsi supporté, unreckoned, Untaken, avec rien à donner. Le premier 
juif était Dieu; la seconde l'a nié; Je suis vivant.

Philip Levine: Das Drehen (German)

 
Unbekannte Gesichter in der Straße und im Winter, die angehen. Ich 
stehe in den letzten Momenten der Stadt, nicht mehr ein Kind, nur ein 
Mann, -- einer wer nach seiner eigenen Nacktheit ohne Schande 
geschauen hat und in der Niederlage hat nichts gesehen zu segnen., 
wie eine Pflaume, drehte mich mich einmal berührt faul im Fleisch, 
oder wie die Pflaumeblüte sah ich nie, hart an den Rändern, gebrannt 
am ersten Eingang des Lebens und also ausgehalten, unreckoned, 
Untaken, mit nichts zu geben. Der erste Jude war Gott; die Sekunde 
verweigerte ihn; Ich bin lebendig.

Philip Levine: O Giro (Portuguese)

 
Caras desconhecidas na rua e no inverno que aproximam-se. Eu não 
estou nos últimos momentos da cidade, não mais uma criança, only um 
homem, -- um quem olhou em cima de seu próprio nakedness sem shame, e 
na derrota não viu nada bless. Tocado uma vez, como uma ameixa, eu 
girei rotten na carne, ou como a flor da ameixa eu nunca vi, duro nas 
bordas, queimadas na primeira entrada da vida, e assim que resistido, 
unreckoned, Untaken, com nada dar. O primeiro jew era deus; o segundo 
negou-o; Eu estou vivo.

Philip Levine: El Dar vuelta (Spanish)

 
Caras desconocidas en la calle y el invierno que se adelantan. No 
estoy parado en los momentos pasados de la ciudad, no más un niño, 
sólo un hombre, -- uno quién ha mirado sobre su propio nakedness sin 
vergüenza, y en derrota no ha visto nada bendecir. Tocado una vez, 
como un ciruelo, me di vuelta putrefacto en la carne, o como la flor 
del ciruelo nunca vi, duro en los bordes, quemados en la primera 
entrada de la vida, y así que aguantado, unreckoned, Untaken, con 
nada dar. El primer judío era dios; el segundo lo negó; Estoy vivo.

Philip Levine: The Turning (Blogs)

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Tribute to Jake Adam York | The Lighthouse Writers Top-Secret Blog by andreadupree (2013/06/19 14:29)
Seventeen years ago, when people still sent such things, I received a postcard from Philip Levine saying that his former student and friend, the fine poet Larry Levis, had died suddenly, at 49. Being 26, and callow, I thought 49 old. ... The family who ran the place it turned out was, like Jake, from Alabama, and he chatted with them at length and declared that they made the best barbecue he'd had, with the qualifier, in Colorado. While I paid for dinner, Jake bought ...
The Tyee – For Fathers, Present and Absent by Fiona Tinwei Lam (2013/06/15 00:20)
The poem "Starlight" by American poet Philip Levine remembers being a four-year-old sitting on his careworn father's shoulders to look at the stars -- a small but symbolic moment that profoundly transforms them both. In "A Grain of Rice", the title poem of Evelyn Lau's wonderful and elegiac ... Sitting at my desk, I'd take one out and finger it, turn it over until it offered up some sense of his life. I was trying to call him back. Or trying to find who he was: this father, whom I ...
Friday Links for Writers 06.14.13 | elissa lauren field by elissa field (2013/06/14 08:22)
What poet would be more fitting to profile than Philip Levine, a former Rouge Plant auto worker turned Poet Laureate of the United States? There is something humbling and inspiring to hear of work and decay spoken of in the ...
Sonofabook: CBe 2013 5 / D. Nurkse, A Night in Brooklyn by charles (2013/06/09 14:12)
waves from a Welcome mat, his eyes full of longing, before turning ... Philip Levine, Ploughshares: 'The voice behind these poems is certainly Nurkse's, but more often than not I feel it's that deepest voice we hear rarely if ever and then only in poems, the voice of those closest to us, those we love and care for and who–because they are human–remain mysteries: “All my life I have been dying, of hope and self-pity, / and an unknown force has been knitting me back ...
Salts and Oils | rarasaur by rarasaur (2013/06/08 22:52)
each night whose turn it was to get breakfast and should he turn the eggs or not. On the way north. I lived for three days on warm water in a DC-6 with a burned out radio on the runway at Athens, Georgia. We sang a song ... Tags: a little bird, armistice day, athenaeum, growing up, inspiration, journeys, labors of hercules, luck and vittles, meat or moment, memories, midrash, pepsin chewing gum, philip levine, poetry, salts and oils, toad, toad princess, writers. Bookmark ...
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 her into space where the first bark went unheard.
Loving, Poetic Orfeo From Parrott - Classics TodayClassics Today by Robert Levine (2013/06/02 07:15)
Purposely eschewing what opera turned into within a half-century of this, the purported first entirely extant opera, Andrew Parrott, with 40 years of experience and scholarship under his belt, has opted to present a “favola in musica” rather than ... With that in mind, this exquisite, delicate reading is a glorious alternative to, say, the Philip Pickett, René Jacobs, or Nikolaus Harnoncourt performances (let alone the heartbreaking Emmanuel Haim reading on Virgin), which are interested in ...
Poetry Sunday - Women's Voices For Change by Women's Voices For Change (2013/06/02 02:30)
In this sandal season, poet Laura Davies Foley speaks of making peace with her feet, and invites us to do the same. ... and turning pink as we wade the cool mountain pond, warming, as they carry me faithfully home to rest. Reprinted with the poet's permission. Laura Davies Foley is the author of three poetry collections, The Glass Tree, Syringa, and Mapping the Fourth Dimension. The Glass Tree is a ... It was also chosen as finalist for the Philip Levine Poetry Prize.
Why Fresno Is The Land Of Poets | AhipCup by Services (2013/05/30 19:13)
It competence be a final place one would associate with humanities and culture, though a series of poets from Fresno have turn successful and successful in a literary scene. The United States Poet Laureate Philip Levine and ...
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
The Yellin Center Blog: Turn Back to Poetry with Poetry 180 by Beth Guadagni, M.A. (2013/05/22 07:57)
The poems Collins selected, which include work from poets like Philip Levine, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Paul Zimmer, Lucille Clifton, and Collins himself, can be purchased as a collection (Poetry 180: A Turning Back ...
Joe Weil | Georg Trakl in Plato's Republic | the the poetry blog by Joe Weil (2013/05/15 02:30)
If we call the former precision, and the latter ecstasy, one might see Plato as privileging precision over ecstasy—a state in which the trains arrive on time as opposed to poetry where the trains might turn into Swans. But, still, Plato's world of system is related to poetry in terms of .... Examples of this type of free verse might be the poems of Philip Levine, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Sharon Olds, Stephen Dunn. This poetry seeks to be clear—to be understandable. It does not ...
Former U.S. poet laureate Philip Levine coming to Valdosta » Local ... by Stuart Taylor (2013/04/12 09:00)
Philip Levine, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former United States Poet Laureate for 2011-2012, is coming to Valdosta Wednesday, April 17. Levine, w. ... “They were kind of terrific people,” said Levine. “More interesting, more courageous.” Although he started writing poetry while working in plants, it would be some time before his poetry turned to hard labor and the workers who do it. “I needed to get some distance on it. I was kind of an angry guy; I had a sense I was ...
Links: 10 March 2013 | MonkeyMoonMachine by monkeymoonmachine (2013/03/10 09:40)
Poetry: Mark Levine writes about having had a class with Philip Levine (thanks to The Dish for highlighting this): He seemed uninterested in interpreting poems, which ... He insisted that the poem be lived. One student turned in a poem that used the word “lion” a single time, to symbolize power. Levine almost blew up. “Goddamn it,” he shouted, “if you're going to put a poor lion in your poem, I want that lion to be there.” He seemed to hunger after the texture of reality, ...
So this is how great poetry is made … (Part 1) | a bigger brighter world by MLJ (2013/03/04 08:20)
Few students turned up at the first seminar run by London (daughter of M. Lincoln Schuster, cofounder of Simon & Schuster). However, her first guests were John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich and Robert Creely — and other literary luminaries soon followed. During 25 years London interviewed poets like Lucille Clifton, Seamus Heaney, Amy Clampitt, Louise Glück, Philip Levine and many more about how they carried out their work and found inspiration. They brought ...
How Difficult It Is to Live by Mark Levine - Poetry Foundation by unknown (2013/03/01 02:20)
Mark Levine on Philip Levine. ... But I had managed, for the first time, to turn to poetry in an effort to specify emotions that were otherwise too harrowing for me to bear or to confront. Some connection I felt with this other Levine ...
Poetry: Serious - Barnstorm » Blog Archive » Poetry: Serious. Not ... by Lucy Hitz (2013/02/07 13:03)
For I will consider my black sow Blackula. / For she is the servant of the god of the feed bucket and serveth him. / For she worships the god in him and the secret of his pail in her way… / For God has blessed her womb and the red boar's seed.
A Few Thoughts And A Tuesday Poem By Philip Levine | Chris Navin by chr1 (2013/02/05 13:54)
A Few Thoughts And A Tuesday Poem By Philip Levine. You Can Have It. My brother comes home from work and climbs the stairs to our room. I can hear the bed groan and his shoes drop one by one. You can have it, he says ...
Beginnings and endings | Southerly by Southerly (2013/01/10 14:51)
As it's the beginning of the new year and the ending of the old year, I have been prompted to think about the beginnings and endings of poems. I always find beginning and ending a poem the hardest aspect of writing.
Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate, Interview - Huffington Post by The Huffington Post News Editors (2012/11/21 07:15)
Trethewey: "My predecessor, Phil Levine, is one of my favorite poets. ... No matter how people think about poetry or think they think about it on a regular basis, people turn to it in some of the most trying times in our lives.
Philip Levine Interview: Former Poet Laureate Talks Where He Likes ... by The Huffington Post News Editors (2012/10/25 07:10)
"Where I Like To Read" is a series of short author interviews and blog posts in which writers share their literary tastes and their favorite places to curl up with a good book. Philip Levine was the 2011-2012 Poet Laureate of the ...
When poetry and politics converge | MobyLives by Melville House interns (2012/10/24 21:01)
Zurita was on a panel called “Voices for the Voiceless” and when it was his turn to speak — while the other panelists, laureates Phillip Levine and Natashea Tretheway, National Book Award-winner Juan Felipe Herrera, ...
Paris Review – Helpless: On the Poetry of Neil Young, Brian Cullman by Brian Cullman (2012/10/23 13:16)
According to Alec Wilkinson, who wrote the New Yorker piece, Young has missed out on “examples of language carrying complicated thoughts or feelings, the way they are carried in the poems of writers such as Philip Levine ...
His name was writ in oil: Philip Levine's industrial sublime ... by Roy (2012/10/18 11:58)
http://poemdaily.blogspot.com/2005/08/sweet-will-philip-levine.html. The poem works (if it does work for you) through various kinds of balance. The line-breaks mostly reinforce syntactic coherence but also create a tumbling ...
Interview With Literary Ambassadors of the National Student Poets ... by admin (2012/10/16 20:38)
I turned to poetry because there aren't any rules for how to do it; in composing a song, there's a rhyme scheme, a number of syllables per line and most likely a section or sections that repeat. When writing .... I've already attended two events as a National Student Poet: the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., where the five of us met an incredible array of writers, including outgoing U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine, and the Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, NJ.
Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 2012 | Glocally Newark by Gentleman Culture (2012/10/15 09:36)
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation was in town again at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center for the 2012 Dodge Poetry Festival which turned downtown Newark into a poetry village. For four days ... Festival poets included the likes of Taalam Acey, Amiri Baraka, Ras Baraka, Eavan Boland, Nikki Finney, Lamar Hill, Philip Levine, Taylor Mali, Rachel McKibbens, Gregory Orr, Baraka Sele, Narubi Selah, Natasha Trethewey, C.K. Williams, and more. The program ...
William Archila - Poetry Society of America by unknown (2012/07/05 16:37)
Nevertheless, when talking about poetry, I think this country has produced visionaries who have written serious literature. Just look at our Poet Laureate Philip Levine. Maybe this is a question of the poetry establishment and who gets chosen ...
A tribute to Philip Levine, poet laureate of workers » peoplesworld by John Case (2012/05/25 11:01)
Philip Levine has just completed his year-long term as the U.S. poet laureate. At 85 years old he is not the oldest poet to hold the ... John Hiatt turned his verse to roots rock. His poems smell like gasoline, machine shops, ...
Ridgeland Teen Named 2012 Poetry Out Loud National Champion ... by savvylife (2012/05/18 10:56)
Dupard named current U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine's “What Work Is” as her favorite poem; she found it “especially relevant since so many people have worked hard to get here to the National Finals.” The second-place ...
Philip Levine – “Animals Are Passing From Our Lives” | Real Poetry by Combat Steve (2012/05/15 06:00)
on my side and drum my toes / like a typewriter or squeal / and shit like a new housewife / discovering television, / or that I'll turn like a beast / cleverly to hook his teeth / with my teeth. No. Not this pig. / – Philip Levine.
On influence and craft: 3 questions for Anthony Carelli - Failbetter by Audrey (2012/05/07 19:35)
I began reading Hart Crane in earnest in September of 2001 because one evening my teacher Philip Levine said the dead poet's name. I'm sure Levine had much more than a name to say – I know Crane is one of Levine's favorite poets – but I don't remember exactly what Levine said that so turned me on. All I know is Levine said Crane's name and I went out soon thereafter and bought a paperback copy of Crane's complete poems. The Proem happened to be the ...
Jewish Poets in America - Connecticut Jewish Ledger by JLedger (2012/04/25 09:18)
Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966), who eventually found more lasting fame as a short-story writer, turned Walt Whitman's odes to the glories of the country into an immigrant's song in “America, America!” (1954): “I am a poet of the Hudson River and the heights ... In 2011, Philip Levine (1928- ) was named U.S. poet laureate, succeeding, among others, the Jewish poets Robert Pinsky, Louise Gluck, and Howard Nemerov. Levine's parents were Russian Jewish immigrants ...
Philip Levine, Fierce About Poetry - Tablet Magazine by Jake Marmer (2012/04/16 04:00)
To read a selection of poems by Philip Levine, including “Library Days,” “The Seventh Summer,” and “Growth,” click here. This year, 83-year-old Philip Levine, poet of the working class, was appointed Poet Laureate of the ...
How a Poem Happens: Fleda Brown by Brian Brodeur (2012/04/08 10:58)
The author of five previous collections of poems, she has won a Pushcart Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer's Award, and her work has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is professor emerita at the University of ... Not so consciously cute, and more scientific, a more ironic perspective on the people praying with their palms turned up, more in keeping with the speaker. Do you believe in inspiration? How much of this ...
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 changed for the poet whose career has spanned over 60 years? ... Asking him why he turned to poetry in the first place, Levine admitted there is no one reason, but that there is a basic thrill in the artistry itself. He does not consider himself a religious man, but he approaches language with an aura of ...
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 Horoscopes and Birth Charts. ... Ambitious, magnanimous, and passionate character endowed with unyielding willpower, which brings about success and fame. Under the influence of unforeseeable outer circumstances, life suddenly takes an unexpected turn. The royal fixed star Antares promises glory and power, but also ...
Meeting Philip Levine and getting to know two fine & dedicated poets by Ellen Beals (2012/03/05 13:41)
But once I saw that Philip Levine would be there speaking with Carol Ann Duffy (Poet Laureate of Great Britain), I knew I wanted to go to the conference to meet him. For those of you who don't know why I was so intent on meeting Philip Levine, I will refer you ... Liz Wiley says: 03/08/2012 at 4:44 am (UTC 0). Ellen, so thoughtful of you to include a mention of Mark for his photography — they did turn out rather good, didn't they? We enjoyed meeting you and talking with ...
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. ... I was turning my back on my whole growing up. I was so angry with myself. I keep musing about, ...
Write the Poem!: Philip Levine, Working Class Proud by Ryan Walsh (2012/02/14 15:55)
Definitely a time to turn to a poet like Phil Levine. All along, there have been those who've known this was coming, who have plodded along documenting the severe toll Reaganomics and de-regulated industry have taken on ...
How to Get There by Philip Levine : Poetry Magazine by unknown (2012/02/01 05:26)
1928 Philip Levine. Turn left off Henry onto Middagh Street. to see our famous firehouse, home. of Engine 205 and. Hook & Ladder 118 and home also to. the mythic painting “Fire under. the Bridge” decorating. the corrugated sliding door.
michaelpotts: On Philip Levine's, “You Can Have It” by michaelpotts (2012/01/15 11:47)
by Philip Levine (from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-can-have-it) My brother comes home from work and climbs the stairs to our room. I can hear the bed groan and his shoes drop one by one. You can have it, he says. The moonlight ... The snow turned to ice. The ice to standing pools or rivers racing in the gutters. Then the bright grass rose between the thousands of cracked squares, and that grass died. I give you back 1948. I give you all the years from then
Philip Levine: A Workingman's Voice | P U L S E by pulsemedia.org (2011/12/12 10:45)
By Feroz Rather. With a serene and distant view of the hills of Sierra Nevada, on 9 August, 2011, I sat in a library at California State University Fresno, reading The Simple Truth, a collection of poems by Philip Levine. The day after, Mr. Levine, 83 , was being nominated by the ... Once again, the ordinary man, the one who becomes the conduit for this exchange which in turn bedazzles him, is Arthur. One might disagree with the kind of line Philip Levine seems to draw ...
Poet Laureate Philip Levine | American Libraries Magazine by Leonard Kniffel (2011/11/14 11:56)
Poet Laureate Philip Levine. America's street-smart new poet laureate has a few choice words to say about a lifetime of experience with good librarians–and some bad ones. U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine. Photo by Frances Levine ..... and they are incredible photographs, and I have a long essay about my view of what Andrew put in his book, and my memories of the place as well, but mainly my memory of the first visit back when I discovered that the place is almost turning into an ...
Philip Levine: Reflecting the Poet's Vision of Working in America by Tula Connell (2011/11/14 07:26)
When the nation's Poet Laureate, Philip Levine, gives a reading of his work tomorrow here at the AFL-CIO, he will recite poems that weave a lyrical web of words around his visceral understanding of the world of work. Levine ...
Poet Of The People | JN News by Newsroom (2011/11/09 07:29)
Philip Levine, recently named America's poet laureate by the Library of Congress, has reading decisions to make. There are some 20 of his collections to review with public presentations in mind. Levine, who wrote his earliest ...
A Laureate in Letters | Books and Culture by unknown (2011/11/07 17:21)
Philip Levine in correspondence, 1994-2011. ... He was the only professor there with the courage to publicly shred his students' poems—shredded some of mine into oblivion, as I recall. "Not one of these lines means anything," he would say, ...
Rediscovering the Joys of Poetry: Levine, Silverstein and Vermont's ... by lisalisabookjam (2011/10/31 16:36)
A newly published collection of poems by beloved author Shel Silverstein and an article about the works of current US Poet Laureate Philip Levine caused me to pause in my reading of prose and think a bit about poetry. First, Mr. Levine. I'd read that Mr. Levine's work is heavily influenced by Michigan and ... I Kept to Myself – the first book of poems that showed me the pleasure poetry can bring. For many years this volume was my favorite gift to give women turning 40.
After Miłosz: Simic, Levine, and Zagajewski Talk Poetry in Chicago by Archambeau (2011/10/07 12:17)
A recent article in the satirical newspaper The Onion made some comic mileage out of the notion that Americans were turning to the works of one of the panel's participants, Philip Levine, to see them through our current ...
On Philip Levine (the newly selected U.S. Poet Laureate) - Poetry ... by unknown (2011/10/05 00:00)
"Trust the poem not the poet," Phil Levine told our poetry writing class that spring, years ago, when I was his student. "Why would you believe the poet anyway?" But I believed Phil. It was my freshman year in college. I wrote ...
English Literature: Philip Levine by Chaucer (2011/09/29 04:50)
Philip Levine. Levine wrote back to us, marking our poems assiduously. Since then I have received many letters from him, always on yellow legal paper with comments like, “I'm not sure my remarks, which are fairly nasty at times, really indicate . .... LEVINE. I started doing factory work at about the age of fourteen. When I turned college age I had to make a decision about what I was going to do about my life. My high-school teachers encouraged me to go to college. I stood in line at ...
turning to the artist - Crue Life by Naomi (2011/09/19 10:34)
As I was reading my twitter feed this morning I fell upon this article about Phillip Levine by The Green Onion. Levine is Poet Laureate of the United States and currently in the USA's climate of uncertainty, economic instability, and political turmoil, people are turning to this man's art to help them make sense of what is happening. The article noted Levine's role within their nation: “We've long relied on our poet laureates as a beacon of hope in times of trouble,” said ...
VPR: Parini: Poets Of The People by unknown (2011/09/15 04:55)
(HOST) It isn't every day that a poet makes the headlines, but commentator Jay Parini says that was the case recently - and not just once, but twice. (PARINI) I recently attended a reading by Philip Levine at the Bread Loaf ...
Labor Poem - Nine Kinds of Pie by Philip Nel (2011/09/04 19:59)
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,.
U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine « Brent Calderwood by brentcalderwood (2011/08/17 05:26)
Last Wednesday it was announced that Philip Levine will be the next U.S. Poet Laureate. The following Saturday, presumably acting on the assumption that working-class poets, or poets in general, enjoy too much popularity and unchecked ...
Philip Levine and the Return of Revolutionary Anger | Book Think ... by Austin Allen (2011/08/16 13:58)
Philip Levine has long been a solid contender for the post of U.S. Poet Laureate, but I wonder whether the Library of Congress intended to make a statement by awarding him the honor this year. From the Arab Spring to the London riots, 2011 has brought to many minds the turmoil of the 1960s, a ... ... From the oak turned to a wall, they Lion,. From they sack and they belly opened. And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth. They feed they Lion and he ...
“Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities”: Does the Huffington Post ... by Brent Calderwood (2011/08/15 18:14)
But “Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What It Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship,” by writer and critic Anis Shivani, is really just a well-written lie. ... For reviewers, teachers and critics concerned with aerating the poetic landscape and turning readers on to new, exciting work, it's imperative to name and laud those unsung writers—help Americans to know them—rather than simply attacking, in the most obvious terms possible, the few living poets that most ...
PHILIP LEVINE, POET OF DRUDGERY | More Intelligent Life by Lee Siegel (2011/08/15 06:39)
Philip Levine has just been anointed America's poet laureate. Lee Siegel explains why this is ... No sooner had the announcement been made that Philip Levine was America's next poet laureate than the misapprehensions started rolling in. “ Best known for his big-hearted ... He turned the intimate, confessional style of Robert Lowell and especially John Berryman—with whom he had studied at Wayne State—into a kind of colloquial, prophetic harshness: ... the ugly who had no chance
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 poetry ready-made, it seems, for a time of downgrades, a double-dip recession and debts left ... Cover of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry The laureate has few official duties and poets have used the job to pursue a range of personal projects,
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. ... And I got there around eight o'clock and there were quite a few guys ahead of me, and it turned out that they weren't opening until 10," Levine says. He waited anyway. "I began thinking about why the hell did they advertise for eight? And then it occurred to me: they wanted us to wait two hours because they wanted men who ...
Philip Levine | thinking about poetry by warrick (2011/08/13 21:13)
Philip Levine. By warrick. I read in the NY TImes this week that Philip Levine is to be the next American Poet Laureate. In that great tradition that they took from the British, Levine will succeed W.S.Merwin in the role. And in tune with these ... His parents were emigrants from Russia, but for some reason they told him he was of Spanish ancestry ,and as a young man he became fascinated with Spanish anarchism and the Spanish Civil War, which still turn up in his poems.
+ Philip Levine is the New Poet Laureate of the US | Dyslexia Tutor ... by Adrienne Edwards (2011/08/13 18:35)
The Library of Congress announced last week that Philip Levine, 83 and known for his big-hearted poems about working-class Detroit, is the new poet laureate. He succeeds W.S. Merwin, wrote Charles McGrath in the New ...
Daily Kos: America's New Poet Laureate Philip Levine: Working ... by rss@dailykos.com (Cabbage Rabbit) (2011/08/13 14:00)
It was announced Wednesday that 83-year-old poet Philip Levine will be the new U.S. Poet Laureate. In making the announcement, ..... Anyway, she's too young...hasn't even turned 70 yet. by Cabbage Rabbit on Sat Aug 13, ...
Interview with Philip Levine, Poet Laureate | Interview with Phil Levine by YY (2011/08/12 20:50)
So, when an elevator door opened one day on Washington Square, and there was the man who had written that poem, Phil Levine, standing there with his wife, Fran, I took it as a gift from the universe—and I had questions, about this poem, about teaching, about life, questions for Phil at long last. For Fran .... I was a little surprised—that much I can remember—by how the poem “turned” toward the final stanza because as I was writing I didn't have an ending in mind.
And I'll Raise You 5: The Freedom to Fail by Monica (2011/08/11 11:22)
Yesterday, the Library of Congress announced the appointment of Philip Levine as the new Poet Laureate of the United States. The job of the Poet Laureate is "to raise the national consciousness to a greater ... So when, on our way to Shakespeare camp this morning (yes, I do see the irony there), our local public radio station, KQED, aired an interview with Levine, I turned it up. I wanted my kids to hear this guy talking about poetry. I'm sure my intended audience was ...
How a Poet Laureate Flows | Psychology Today by Susan K. Perry, Ph.D. (2011/08/10 19:00)
Philip Levine won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1995 for his 15th collection of poetry, The Simple Truth, and now, at age 83, he has been named the next U.S. Poet Laureate. Levine is widely known for his poems about working-class people and the need for economic and social justice. He and I exchanged letters while I was researching celebrated writers and poets (when he was a mere 68), for what eventually turned into the book Writing in Flow. What follows is ...
US Poet Laureate Headlines Burlington Book Fest - Blogs by Pamela Polston (2011/08/10 15:45)
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine is a headliner at the Burlington Book Festival's Grace Paley Poetry Series next month. Today ... But in the end, what poet in his right mind would turn down such an honor? "I would kick ...
Philip Levine named Poet Laureate of the US | The Blogora by Jim Aune (2011/08/10 11:37)
Philip Levine named Poet Laureate of the US · rhetoric and poetic. Submitted by Jim Aune on August 10, 2011 - 1:37pm. *The* poet of American working life gets the honor. Here's the conclusion to my favorite Levine poem, "One for the Rose: I drank whatever I could find and made my solitary way back to the terminal and dozed among the drunks and ... that I remember every single turn, and each one smells like an overblown rose, yellow, American, beautiful, and true. Jim Aune's blog .
Flint Expatriates: Philip Levine Named Poet Laureate by gordieyoung@sbcglobal.net (Gordon Young) (2011/08/10 08:07)
Philip Levine, "best known for his big-hearted, Whitmanesque poems about working-class Detroit," is going to be the the country's next poet laureate. Charles McGrath of The New York Times writes: Mr. Levine grew up in ...
Straight Up | Herman | Levine's Factory Stiffs, Society's Throw-Aways by Straight Up | (2011/08/10 07:17)
When the 1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were about to be announced, an editor assigned me to write an appreciation of the book that won the poetry prize: What Work Is, by Philip Levine. ... (From “The Turning”) An admiring X. J. Kennedy, in a prescient review, noted that the book's virtues were “hard to make too much of”–though, in fact, few people did at the time. Even Levine's devoted small-press publisher lacked the sort of resources to make too much of ...
Little Epic Against Oblivion: Philip Levine. That is all. by noreply@blogger.com (Joshua Robbins) (2011/08/10 05:13)
The New York Times: "The Library of Congress will announce on Wednesday that Philip Levine, best known for his big-hearted, Whitmanesque poems about working-class Detroit, is to be the next poet laureate." The Fresno Bee: "I don't ... Other comments like “suppressing imagery—like a chest cold,” “Interesting not 'turn to dust,'” “interesting change off falling to tunneling,” “nature with human response and action qualities,” “Great waking image!” I circled words, wrote ...
Philip Levine Is Named U.S. Poet Laureate | a blind flaneur by Mark Willis (2011/08/10 04:37)
American poet Philip Levine I was very pleased this morning to hear the news that Philip Levine has been named the next Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress. I've loved his poetry ever since I began to seriously read and ...
California Poet: Congratulations to Philip Levine, Our New United ... by Robert Vasquez (2011/08/09 21:00)
This year is turning out to be a fine one for poets I value. For example, I was happy to hear that Eduardo Corral had won the Yale Younger Poets Series Award, and now Philip Levine has been named Poet Laureate of the ...
Structuralism: Self Portrait with a Biography of Eugene O'Neill ... by Steve Gehrke (2011/08/09 17:00)
like the turn that signals a soliloquy, the self stripped bare before an audience, like my body as they peeled my clothes away, the parchment-yellow skin, the disease scribbled everywhere, the doctors reading, easily, the message in my swollen ...
St. Ignatius on the Prison Ship to Rome | Volume 61, Number 1 by Steve Gehrke (2011/07/17 17:45)
as prayer, though it didn't help when she turned and the cord eeled around her neck, rupturing the monitor's loose pentameter, so that until she turned again and slipped from the noose of elegy,. she was both alive and dead in me. Turn and ...
Guest Blog Post: Dylan Cecchini on the Philip Levine Symposium at ... by Chloe Yelena Miller (2011/06/29 06:00)
In the poem, while Hirsch described his own inevitable clumsiness in his "life in poetry," (a life, which, Hirsch chiefly credits friends Philip Levine and Gerald Stern for helping to create) towards the end of the poem Hirsch returned to a familiar memory of being an adolescent boy engrossed in his stacks of poems, moving between two tables to write or read. I couldn't help smiling ... One line, and the inexplicable turned my right ear, and I heard. "I bought a dollar and ...
The Elevated View: A Poem by Philip Levine by Volpiano: (2011/05/26 20:59)
arrived the great bowl of mountains / was hidden in a cloud of exhaust, / the sea spread out like a carpet / of oil, the roses I had brought / from Fresno browned on the seat / beside me, and I could have / turned back and lost the ...
News of the World | Books and Culture by unknown (2011/04/06 00:00)
Philip Levine, the new U.S. Poet Laureate. ... We're running it again today in honor of Philip Levine's appointment as the new Poet Laureate of the United States. "Everyone loves a story," Philip Levine writes in News of the World. Or do they?
Dorianne Laux - The Fictionaut Blog by Jürgen (2011/02/26 10:03)
*”Mine Own Phil Levine” is closely patterned after W.S. Merwin's poem “Berryman” and the title is taken from Philip Levine's essay titled “Mine Own John Berryman” which in turn is based on the Thomas Wyatt poem, “Mine ...
Philip Levine "They Feed They Lion" - Hyacinths and Biscuits by Hap Mansfield (2011/01/21 23:16)
From the oak turned to a wall, they Lion, From they sack and they belly opened. And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth. They feed they Lion and he comes. --Philip Levine Hap Notes: Philip Levine (born 1928) grew up in a working class home in Detroit, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. He often speaks in his poetry of his jobs in the auto industry or his brother's job at the ice plant (his poem "You Can Have It" addresses this.) But this poem is ...
the real deal: Two Voices, a poem by Philip Levine. by john cotter (2011/01/09 12:46)
Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize from Poetry / * Frank O'Hara Prize / * Two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships / He says, "I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong." / Two Voices by Philip Levine. ... Then my name, “Philip,” / a huge voice, deep and resonant, unfamiliar / or if heard before, heard on radio or TV, / too sonorous for daily life. So, of course, / I turned to behold more kids on roller blades, / kids on skateboards, kids on foot, no one
coming close :: philip levine | poetry by supriyanna (2010/09/15 20:39)
coming close :: philip levine. by supriyanna on September 15, 2010. Take this quiet woman, she has been standing before a polishing wheel for over three hours, and she lacks twenty minutes before she can take a lunch break. Is she a woman? Consider the arms as they press the long brass tube against the buffer, they are striated along the ... suddenly saw it was not a solid object but so many separate bristles forming in motion a perfect circle, she would turn to you and say, “Why?
Lost in the Cave of the Mouth – Contemporary Poetry Review by JRother (2010/07/23 11:40)
A Journal Devoted Exclusively to Poetry Criticism / "It's the best damn poetry review online." / -Michael Neff, editor of Web del Sol / "The intelligence of the reviews on this site, and their / scope, is beyond most magazines ...
Food for Poems: Philip Levine by Becky (2010/03/20 08:20)
Philip Levine. It's federal grant season at work, and as such, kind of a stressful time for me. The following poem suffices to remind me there are more grueling fates than white-collar office labor, though I presently lack the intellectual energy to provide much else by way of explication. I like Philip Levine; he's a competent but not earth-shaking poet whose ... loose and turning their eyes forever inward. These are the children of Flint, their fathers work at the spark plug ...
The Hickory Head Hermit: Poem: “On My Own,” by Philip Levine ... by Mike Firesmith (2010/01/13 19:10)
Poem: “On My Own,” by Philip Levine, from New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf). / On My Own / Yes, I only got here on my own. / Nothing ... to guard the window, the silver spoon / to turn my tea, the pack of cigarettes
We liked it but not quite enough: Philip Levine, Seagulls and Keats by Writearound (2009/11/16 17:07)
Aldeburgh Poetry festival threw up a lot to be savoured most of all Philip Levine who has been a poetry hero of mine since I was 16 years old. Someone showed me his poem The Horse and I had this epiphany about what ...
Easy Reading - by David Kaufmann - Tablet Magazine – Jewish ... by David Kaufmann (2009/10/28 04:00)
I want to take the opportunity of my first monthly column on Jewish poetry to talk about two very different recent volumes by two very different, well-established, and frequently published poets: Philip Levine and Hank Lazer. Levine, at 81, has .... On the other hand, Lazer risks alienating the reader through his syntactical complexities and unorthodox opinions in order to turn the poem into an occasion for thought, for playing with possibilities. You don't really have to go ...
One Poet's Notes: Philip Levine's "What Work Is" on Labor Day by Edward Byrne (2009/09/06 22:12)
Philip Levine received the National Book Award in 1991 for his volume of poems titled What Work Is. For decades, Levine had been associated with the working class, particularly those blue-collar workers in factories and on the assembly lines of the hometown Detroit he knew .... there is always light, from the slimmest of glimmers to full moony illumination, and it is that light, seeded throughout, that we will remember, long after we close the pages and turn off the lamp.
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 ... I think she was so glad I quit the track and went to college when I turned eighteen that I could have studied lion taming, and she would have said, That's an old and honorable profession. But she loved poetry, fiction, music; that a son of hers would ...
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,
Intertexuality In the Moment: Philip Levine, John Berryman, and ... by ariegr1 (2009/03/24 20:50)
Mainly with Henri Coulette, who for some years became my best critic.” – Philip Levine. Therefore this causes even more influence between the two poets. This is because when Coulette critiques Levine's poems Levine listens to Coulette's critique and follows through with it. Even though ... You go the extra mile (as you did in the previous post) by discussing not one but two significant writers whose work influenced Levine (and who in turn were influenced by Levine).
Philip Levine Biography - ariegr1′s blog - Edublogs by ariegr1 (2009/03/11 21:04)
Philip chose this path because teaching at the University allowed him to attend the Iowa Writer's Workshop. This in turn propelled his writing forward. Levine kept writing poems and getting more and more noticed. Soon, Philip ...
The Writing Corner: Philip Levine: Our Valley by Beth Wellington (2008/11/23 22:10)
Philip Levine: Our Valley. Still from PBS Video of poet Philip Levin, one of my favorites, reading "Belle Isle 1949" for the PBS project, Poetry Everywhere. ... Turning at last to see no island at all but a perfect calm dark as far
Third Rail Themes: Friday Poetry: Philip Levine by Ammegg (2008/07/25 18:16)
From all my white sins forgiven, they feed / From my car passing under the stars, / They Lion, from my children inherit, / From the oak turned to a wall, they Lion, / From they sack and they belly opened / And all that was hidden ...
One Poet's Notes: Edgar Degas and Philip Levine by Edward Byrne (2008/07/18 22:03)
Since today (July 19) is the birth date of Edgar Degas, born in 1834, I'd additionally like to use this day to remind readers again of Philip Levine's humorous poem, “M. Degas Teaches Art and Science at Durfee Intermediate School,” referencing the famous painter. Philip .... there is always light, from the slimmest of glimmers to full moony illumination, and it is that light, seeded throughout, that we will remember, long after we close the pages and turn off the lamp."
We Convince By Our Presence: Philip Levine - They Feed They Lion by Matthew A Kaberline (2008/04/18 21:42)
In the spirit of April being National Poetry Month, I've decided to enter a brief essay every day on one of my favorite poems in the hopes that I'll be able to share some beautiful, important pieces of art with the people who are beautiful and ... From the oak turned to a wall, they Lion, From they sack and they belly opened. And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth. They feed they Lion and he comes. ---Philip Levine. Philip Levine's They Feed They Lion.
Skunk Hour- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More by unknown (2008/03/28 08:08)
Lights turned down, they lay together, hull to hull, where the graveyard shelves on the town. . . . My mind's not right. A car radio bleats, 'Love, O careless Love . . . .' I hear my ill-spirit sob in each blood cell, as if my hand were at its throat .
Tribute to Poet Philip Levine, 80th Birthday - Kingdom Books ... by Beth Kanell (2007/11/17 13:25)
Here's one of my favorite Levine poems, as different as possible from Vermont's photo imagery -- and yet, the one time I met Levine was here in the Green Mountains. Coming Close by Philip Levine Take this quiet woman, she has been standing before a polishing wheel for over three hours, and she lacks twenty minutes before she ... in motion a perfect circle, she would turn to you and say, "Why?" Not the old why of why must I spend five nights a week? Just, "Why?
Inward Bound Poetry: 439. The Face - Philip Levine by Bookgleaner (2007/06/26 06:46)
The Face - Philip Levine . A strange wind off the night. I have come here to talk to you at last, here in an empty hotel room half the world away from home. Our tracks have crossed how many times—a dozen at least—and yet it's more ... and when I turned at last he was gone, and the bench filled with dirty children. I went back—but no— he was gone, and wherever. I walked I felt those eyes on me and felt somehow a time had come when we might speak at last. And so I ...
Philip Levine and the Honest Need - Robert Peake by nospam@example.com (Robert Peake) (2007/04/27 17:21)
Walt Whitman Reading Philip Levine's New Selected Poems isn't easy when you're already down. ... At the moment you think the poem is going to turn away it becomes even more intimate, desperate, strange and sad. This, to ...
Daily Poem: Sweet Will -- Philip Levine by BlueVerse (2005/08/01 21:29)
Sweet Will -- Philip Levine. The man who stood beside me 34 years ago this night fell on to the concrete, oily floor of Detroit Transmission, and we stepped carefully over him until he wakened and went back to his press. It was Friday night, and the others told me that every Friday he drank more than he could hold and fell ... for night had turned to day as it often does for those who are patient, so it was Saturday in the year of '48 in the very heart of the city of man

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For Fathers, Present and Absent - TheTyee.ca (2013/06/15 00:07)
For Fathers, Present and AbsentTheTyee.caThe poem "Starlight" by American poet Philip Levine remembers being a four-year-old sitting on his careworn father's shoulders to look at the stars -- a small but symbolic moment that profoundly transforms them both. In "A Grain of Rice", the title ...
Events in Westchester - New York Times (2013/06/14 17:22)
Events in WestchesterNew York TimesThe Turning Point, 468 Piermont Avenue. turningpointcafe.com; (845) 359-1089. PORT CHESTER Chicago, rock. June 22 ... Through Sept. 8. “Four Seasons,” installation by Philip Haas. Through Oct. 27. ... SLEEPY HOLLOW The Open Mic Night, poetry, fiction ...and more »
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books by Geri Doran and Michael S ... - lareviewofbooks (2013/06/11 00:03)
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books by Geri Doran and Michael S ...lareviewofbooksIt is a way of wielding language in which sound and soma turn into message and terra firma everywhere, as in “The Angels Levine”: In this ear a message and a wound; the sound goes out each ear becomes the ground. Drug addicts, visual artists, other ...
Spare Times for May 31-June 6 - New York Times (2013/05/30 15:20)
Spare Times for May 31-June 6New York TimesOn Tuesday at 7 p.m., an event in celebration of his life will feature performances and readings by the poets John Giorno, Philip Levine and Paul Muldoon; the actor Will Keen and the singer and musician Patti Smith; tickets are $25, $15 for 60+ and ...
This Day, May 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin - Cleveland Jewish News (blog) (2013/05/24 17:20)
This Day, May 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. LevinCleveland Jewish News (blog)Strungell was not Jewish but he spent a major portion of his academic life working with these texts and his comments about Judaism in Haaretz turned into a major cause célèbre. ..... It was there that he began writing short fiction and poetry ...and more »
This Day, May 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin - Cleveland Jewish News (blog) (2013/05/23 16:24)
This Day, May 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. LevinCleveland Jewish News (blog)She and her nieces were turned away from a hotel in Atlantic City because they were Jewish. Legislators in the Empire State who were .... Brodsky won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 and was U.S. Poet Laureate in 1991. 1941: Birthdate of Bob Dylan.and more »

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