Philip Levine (1928–2015)
Autor(a) de What Work Is
Sobre o Autor
Philip Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan on January 10, 1928. Starting at the age of 14, he held a series of industrial jobs including working in a soap factory, hefting cases of soft drinks at a bottling plant, manning a punch press at Chevrolet Gear and Axle, and operating a jackhammer at mostrar mais Detroit Transmission. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Wayne State University and a master of fine arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first collection of poetry, On the Edge, was published in 1961. His other poetry collections included 1933, Not This Pig, They Feed They Lion, A Walk with Tom Jefferson, The Mercy, and Breath. He won numerous awards during his lifetime including the 1977 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for The Names of the Lost, the 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award for Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years from Somewhere, the 1987 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for his body of work, the National Book Award for Ashes: Poems New and Old in 1980 and for What Work Is in 1991, and a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Simple Truth. He was appointed the Library of Congress 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 2011 to 2012. His poetry appeared in several publications including The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine. He also published a collection of autobiographical essays entitled Bread of Time and edited an anthology entitled The Essential Keats. He died of pancreatic cancer on February 14, 2015 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Crédito da Imagem: Frances Levine
Obras por Philip Levine
Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (2004) 4 exemplares
Naming 3 exemplares
Smoke 1 exemplar
Naming : a poem 1 exemplar
Set poemes 1 exemplar
Smoke 1 exemplar
Dreaming in Swedish 1 exemplar
Blue 1 exemplar
Dreaming in Swedish : three poems 1 exemplar
Cuatro poemas 1 exemplar
Ask For Nothing 1 exemplar
A History of My Befuddlement (The Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture on the Teaching of Poetry) (2010) 1 exemplar
The Poem of Chalk 1 exemplar
Obras Associadas
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contribuidor — 1,299 exemplares, 9 críticas
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 944 exemplares, 7 críticas
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Contribuidor — 842 exemplares, 12 críticas
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contribuidor — 401 exemplares, 3 críticas
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Contribuidor — 304 exemplares, 5 críticas
This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contribuidor — 165 exemplares, 3 críticas
My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love (1998) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares, 1 crítica
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943 (2021) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares, 1 crítica
South Dakota review : the symposium: ten poets: fiction and poetry, volume 5, number 3 (autumn 1967) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Levine, Philip
- Data de nascimento
- 1928-01-10
- Data de falecimento
- 2015-02-14
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Fresno, California, USA
- Causa da morte
- pancreatic cancer
- Locais de residência
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Educação
- Wayne State University (BA | 1950 | MA | 1954)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA | 1957) - Ocupações
- dichter
- Relações
- Cohen, Andrea (student)
- Organizações
- California State University, Fresno (professor)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1987)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1973)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (2011-2012)
Wallace Stevens Award (2013)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1995)
National Book Award for Poetry (1980) (mostrar todos 7)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1997)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 58
- Também por
- 36
- Membros
- 1,777
- Popularidade
- #14,489
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 13
- ISBN
- 70
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 9