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1 online resource (217 pages) |
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Their Invisible Great Good Luck / Jane Mead; A Laureate in Letters: Philip Levine in Correspondence, 1994 -- 2011 / Aaron Belz; Rhymes with Deer / Ciaran Berry; Philip Levine, Professional Wrestling, and Me / Paula Bohince; Mine Own Philip Levine / Shane Book; Changed Utterly / B.H. Boston; On the Teaching of Philip Levine / Xochiquetzal Candelaria; It's beautiful whether or not you let it be / Colin Cheney; They Feed They Lion and Me / Michael Clifton; A Real Fact / Michael Collier |
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Trust the Poet: Reflections on Phil Levine at Three Universities / Nicole CooleyBirth in a Poetry Position: On Philip Levine / Kate Daniels; What We Were Doing Was Work / Blas Manuel De Luna; Homage to Mr. Levine / Kathy Fagan; Terrific / Andrew Feld; A Light Inside / Nick Flynn; Thirty Years from Somewhere / Edward Hirsch; Philip Levine: The Proof of My Patience / Sandra Hoben; An Exquisite Simulacrum / Ishion Hutchinson; The Surprising Chill / Lawson Fusao Inada; Philip Levine and My Pursuit of a Life in Poetry / Joseph O. Legaspi; Philip Levine: A Resonant Presence / Mari L'Esperance |
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Winter, 1985 / Mark LevinePhilip Levine / Larry Levis; Worth Fighting For: An Essay for Philip Levine / Ada Limon; Phil Levine at Houston: My First Teacher / Elline Lipkin; The Capricorn's Pedagogy / Dante Micheaux; The Simple Voice of Philip Levine / Tomas Q. Morin; High above the Atlantic / Malena Morling; A Love Supreme: Notes toward an Appropriate Gratitude / John Murillo; An Apprentice's Tale / Daniel Nester; Reading Philip Levine in 1972 / Sharon Olds; So Enough / January Gill O'Neil; Finding Levine / Greg Pape; On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca / Kathleen Peirce |
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Jabs, Undercuts, and Kindness: The Humanity of Philip Levine / Same PereiraPermission to Be: Philip Levine at Columbia, 1978 / Jeffrey Skinner; To See What It Was Worth / Tom Sleigh; Philip Levine and the Hands of Time / David St. John; The Poems We Carry / Brian Turner; A Walk with Philip Levine / Robert Wrigley; Contributors; Permissions |
| Summary |
This collection of essays pays tribute to Philip Levine as teacher and mentor. Throughout his fifty-year teaching career, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Levine taught scores of younger poets, many of whom went on to become famous in their own right. These forty essays honor and celebrate one of our most vivid and gifted poets. Whether in Fresno, New York, Boston, Detroit, or any of the other cities where Levine taught, his students benefited from his sharp, humorous honesty in the classroom. In these personal essays, poets spanning a number of generations reveal how t |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Levine, Philip, 1928-2015 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Levine, Philip, 1928-2015 -- Appreciation
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| SUBJECT |
Levine, Philip, 1928-2015 fast |
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Poetry -- Appreciation
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Art appreciation
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Poetry -- Appreciation
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Morin, Tomas Q
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| ISBN |
9780985932534 |
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0985932538 |
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