The Simple Truth
Poems (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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.
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September 3, 1996PHILIP 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.
The Last Shift
Philip Levine
My Lost Poets
Philip Levine
A Walk with Tom Jefferson
Philip Levine
News of the World
Philip Levine
Breath
Philip Levine
The Mercy
Philip Levine
The Simple Truth
Philip Levine
New Selected Poems of Philip Levine
Philip Levine
What Work Is
Philip Levine