New Selected Poems

New Selected Poems

by Philip Levine
New Selected Poems

New Selected Poems

by Philip Levine

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Overview

LIGHTS I HAVE SEEN BEFORE 

The children are off somewhere
and when I waken
I hear only
the buzz of current
in the TV
and the refrigerator 

groaning against the coming
day. I rise and wash;
there is nothing
to think of except
the insistent push
of water, and the pipe's

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307761415
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/07/2011
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

PHILIP LEVINE was born in 1928 in Detroit and was formally educated there, at the public schools and at Wayne University (now Wayne State University). After a succession of industrial jobs he left the city for good and lived in various parts of the country before settling in Fresno, California, where he taught at the University until his retirement. He has received many awards for his books of poems, including the National Book Award in 1991 for What Work Is, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Simple Truth.

Hometown:

Fresno, California

Date of Birth:

January 10, 1928

Place of Birth:

Detroit, Michigan

Education:

B.A., Wayne State University; M.F.A., Iowa Writers Workshop, University of Iowa
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