The Simple Truth: Poems - Paperback

Name: The Simple Truth: Poems - Paperback
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SKU: 9780679765844
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by Philip Levine

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Book Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1995

Written in a voice that moves between elegy and prayer, The Simple Truth contains thirty-three poems whose aim is to weave a complex tapestry of myth, history (both public and private), family, memory, and invention in a search for truths so basic and universal they often escape us all.

Front Jacket

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 1995, Philip Levine goes from strength to strength, having received the National Book Ward for Poetry for his earlier book What Work Is. This is the first paperback edition of this text, about which Harold Bloom said, "The controlled pathos of every poem in the volume is immense, and gives me a new sense of Levine."

ISBN	9780679765844
Author	Philip Levine
Publisher	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre	Biography, Literature, and Family
Format	Paperback
Published	September 1996
Language	ENG- English
Pages	80
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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About Philip Levine

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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