The Simple Truth: Poems

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 Written in a voice that moves between elegy and prayer,...
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Author: Philip Levine
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The Simple Truth: Poems by Levine, Philip

The Simple Truth: Poems

$301.42

The Simple Truth: Poems

$301.42
Author: Philip Levine
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Philip Levine
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/03/1996
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780679765844


Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/02/1997 pg. 28
Library Journal 04/01/1997 pg. 95

About the Author
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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