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What Work Is: Poems
by Philip Levine
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0679401660
- ISBN 13
- 9780679401667
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About This Item
Burgundy cloth covered hardcover bords with title and author's name blindstamped on front cover, gilt lettering to spine. Hardcover is in fine condition, no condition issues noted. Inscribed by author on title page.
DJ has very minor edgewear to top front cover edge only. Not price clipped. No other condition issues.
Major themes in this collection focus on the American working class. Many characters are vivid representations of American workers in blue collar jobs. Settings include plumbing and plating factories, brass factories, automobile manufacturing planets, as well as neighborhoods in Detroit.
The poetry finds its power as Levine reveals the inner lives of his characters.
According to Daniel Gyillory, minister, visual artist, and poet, Levine's poetry is accesible and moving and uterly American.
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Synopsis
Philip Levine was born in 1928 in Detroit and was formally educated there, in 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 state university until his retirement. For twelve autumns he served as poet in residence at New York University. 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. In 2011 he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States. He divides his time between Fresno, California, and Brooklyn, New York.
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- Bookseller
- Bonnie Lane Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11-28-2023-03
- Title
- What Work Is: Poems
- Author
- Philip Levine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 7th printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679401660
- ISBN 13
- 9780679401667
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991-04
- Pages
- 77
- Size
- 9 1/4" x 6"
- Keywords
- Poetry Book Critic's award winner.
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