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So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews (Poets on Poetry)
Philip Levine
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Description for So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews (Poets on Poetry)
Paperback. An engaging and intimate collection by an American original Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 213.
So Ask mixes memoir and criticism by Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine. He reflects-sometimes poignantly and sometimes hilariously-on his working-class Detroit roots, his poetic apprenticeship with John Berryman, his first encounter with Keats, his mentoring of the late Larry Levis, and other stages of his formation and flourishing as a poet. Levine's compassionate politics color his uncommon view of contemporary poetry, as he recounts the pleasures of teaching poetry to students not born to privilege and wrestles with the racial and ethnic prejudices of some canonical figures in Anglo-American poetry. Throughout the book, Levine's keen wit and insight remind the ... Read more
So Ask mixes memoir and criticism by Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine. He reflects-sometimes poignantly and sometimes hilariously-on his working-class Detroit roots, his poetic apprenticeship with John Berryman, his first encounter with Keats, his mentoring of the late Larry Levis, and other stages of his formation and flourishing as a poet. Levine's compassionate politics color his uncommon view of contemporary poetry, as he recounts the pleasures of teaching poetry to students not born to privilege and wrestles with the racial and ethnic prejudices of some canonical figures in Anglo-American poetry. Throughout the book, Levine's keen wit and insight remind the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Poets on Poetry
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472064205
SKU
V9780472064205
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About Philip Levine
Philip Levine was born in Detroit in 1928. After a succession of industrial jobs he left the city and lived in various parts of the country before settling in Fresno, California, where he taught at California State University until his retirement. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1995, and two National Book Awards.
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