New Selected Poems of Philip Levine

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On sale Sep 07, 2011 | 304 Pages | 9780307761415

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LIGHTS I HAVE SEEN BEFORE 

The children are off somewhere
and when I waken
I hear only
the buzz of current
in the TV
and the refrigerator 

groaning against the coming
day. I rise and wash;
there is nothing
to think of except
the insistent push
of water, and the pipe's
© Frances Levine
PHILIP LEVINE was born in 1928 in Detroit and attended 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. He was the author of nineteen previous collections of poetry and was the recipient of two National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, among many other honors. He was poet laureate from 2011 until 2012, and served twelve autumns as poet-in-residence at New York University. He died in February 2015. View titles by Philip Levine

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LIGHTS I HAVE SEEN BEFORE 

The children are off somewhere
and when I waken
I hear only
the buzz of current
in the TV
and the refrigerator 

groaning against the coming
day. I rise and wash;
there is nothing
to think of except
the insistent push
of water, and the pipe's

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© Frances Levine
PHILIP LEVINE was born in 1928 in Detroit and attended 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. He was the author of nineteen previous collections of poetry and was the recipient of two National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, among many other honors. He was poet laureate from 2011 until 2012, and served twelve autumns as poet-in-residence at New York University. He died in February 2015. View titles by Philip Levine

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