Philip Levine (poet)

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Philip Levine at an author reading (2006)

Philip Levine (* 10. January 1928 in Detroit , Michigan ; † 14. February 2015 in Fresno , California ) was an American poet and university lecturer , both two-time National Book Award and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry awarded .

Life

After attending school, Levine, who was of Russian descent , studied at Wayne State University , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1950 and then a Master of Arts (MA) in 1955 . He completed another postgraduate course at the University of Iowa with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) and was a lecturer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop there . He later became a professor at California State University, Fresno .

Levine, who also received a Guggenheim scholarship , began his writing career in 1963 with the volume of poetry On the Edge . In 1980 he received the National Book Award for the first time in the poetry category for his volume Ashes , published in 1979 . For What Work Is: Poems (1991) he received the 1991 National Book Award in the poetry category, before he was honored with the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection of poems Simple Truth , published in 1994 .

At the same time he published his memoir in 1994 under the title The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography . In 1997 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2002 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2012 he worked on a jazz & poetry project of the Benjamin Boone Jazz Quartet, which set Levine's poem "Our Valley" to music.

more publishments

  • Not This Pig (1968)
  • They Feed the Lion (1972)
  • The Names of the Lost (1976)
  • One for the Rose (1981)
  • Sweet Will (1985)
  • A Walk with Tom Jefferson (1988)
  • Smoke (1997)
  • Mercy (1999)
  • Breath (2004)
  • Stranger to Nothing: Selected Poems (2006)
  • News of the World (2009)

Background literature

  • Christoper Buckley: On the Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing , University of Michigan Press, 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philip Levine, Former US Poet Laureate Who Won Pulitzer, Dies at 87
  2. ^ Members: Philip Levine. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 9, 2019 .
  3. ^ Obituary in The Fresno Bee

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personal data
SURNAME Levine, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2015
Place of death Fresno , California