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  • The Simple Truth: Poems

    The Simple Truth: Poems - Paperback

    The Simple Truth: Poems - Paperback

    By Philip Levine
  • The Last Shift: Poems

    The Last Shift: Poems - Paperback

    The Last Shift: Poems - Paperback

    By Philip Levine

About Philip Levine Books

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.