New Selected Poems of Philip Levine - Softcover

Levine, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679740562 ISBN 13: 9780679740568

Publisher: Knopf, 1992

Synopsis

Philip Levine’s New Selected Poems replaces Selected Poems (1984) by adding to it a generous choice of major work from each of the two volumes that followed it: Sweet Will (1985) and A Walk With Tom Jefferson (1988).

About this title

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 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. He died in February 2015.

Review:

And Owl
And The Falcon Came
And The Pheonix Has Come
Apple Dumps
Apple Tragedy
At The Bottom Of The Arctic Ocean
A Bang - A Burning
Bayonet Charge
Birth Of Rainbow
The Black Beast
Boom
Bowled Over
Bride And Groom Lie Hidden For Three Days
The Bull Moses
Cadenza
Calves Harshly Parted From Their Mamas
Cat And Mouse
A Childish Prank
Cleopatra To The Asp
Coming Down Through Somerset
The Contender
Couples Under Cover
A Cranefly In September
Crow Hill
Crow's First Lesson
Crow's Last Stand
Curlews In April
Curlews Lift
Dawn's Rose
Dead Farms, Dead Leaves
Deaf School
Do Not Pick Up The Telephone
The Dove Came
Eagle
Earth-numb
Egg-head
Emily Bronte
Esther's Tomcat
Examination At The Womb-door
The Executioner
Fallgrief's Girlfriends
Famour Poet
February 17th
Fern
Fire-eater
Football At Slack
For Billy Holt
The Formal Auctioneer
Fourth Of July
Full Moon And Little Frieda
Gaudette, Sels.
Ghost-crabs
Gnat-psalm
A God
Gog
Goose
The Grass-blade Is Not Without
The Green Wolf
The Harvest Moon
Hawk Roosting
Heptonstall
Heptonstall Cemetery
Heptonstall Old Church
Her Husband
A Horrible Religious Error
The Horses
The Howling Of Wolves
I Know Well
I See The Oak's Bridge
It Is All
The Jaguar
The Knight
Kreutzer Sonata
Life Is Trying To Be Life
Littleblood
The Lovepet
Lovesong
The Man Seeking Experience Enquires His Way Of Drop Of Water
A March Calf
The Martyrdom Of Bishop Farrar
Mayday On Holderness
Meeting
Moors
A Motorbike
Mountains
New Moon In January
Night Arrival Of Sea Trout
Notes For A Little Play
November
Now You Have To Push
October Dawn
An October Salmon
Once I Said Lightly
An Otter
Out
Owl's Song
Pibroch
Pike
A Primrose Petal's Edge
Prometheus On His Crag: 10
Prometheus On His Crag: 20
Prometheus On His Crag: 9
Prospero And Sycorax
Ravens
Relic
The Retired Colonel
The Risen
Rock Has Not Learned
Roe Deer
Root, Stem, Leaf
Salmon Eggs
Scapegoats And Rabies
Second Glance At A Jaguar
Seven Dungeon Songs: 2
Seven Dungeon Songs: 4
Seven Dungeon Songs: 5
Seven Dungeon Songs: 7
Sheep
Six Young Men
Skylarks
Snowdrop
Soliloquy
Sometimes It Comes
Song
The Song
Song Of A Rat: 1. The Rat's Dance
Speech Out Of Shadow
Stations
Stealing Trout On A May Morning
Still Life
The Stone
Strawberry Hill
Sunstroke
The Swallow - Rebuilding
The Swift Comes The Swift
Swifts
That Moment
That Morning
Theology
This Is The Maneater's Skill
Thistles
The Thought-fox
Thrushes
Tiger Psalm
Tractor
Tv Off
Two Eskimo Songs: 2: How Water Began To Play
View Of A Pig
The Virgin Knight
Wadsworth Moor
The Warriors Of The North
Waving Goodbye
When Men Got To The Summit
Widdop
The Wild Duck
Wilfred Owen's Photographs
Wind
A Wind Flashes The Grass
Witches
Wodwo
A Woman Unconscious
You Hated Spain
Your Tree - Your Oak
The Mad Scene
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679740562
• ISBN 13: 9780679740568
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304