Philip Levine (Pulitizer Prize Poetry 1995) Hand Autographed Signed Poem 2001

Description: Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno. He also held teaching positions at other universities as well. He served on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets from 2000 to 2006 and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States from 2011–2012. Boldly Hand Autographed Signed Poem "From The Return For Miguel Hernandez"Dated Brooklyn Nov. 8, 2001 8" X 11" Excellent Condition.Includes Free 4" X 6" Unsigned Photograph. The net proceeds donated between two different dog rescues. Thank you for your support. ALL MY ITEMS SOLD HAVE A 100% UNCONDITIONAL MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE In 1957, he was awarded the Jones Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University. In 1958, he joined the English department at California State University, Fresno where he taught until his retirement in 1992. He also taught at many other universities, including New York University as a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, Columbia University, Brown University, Tufts University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of California, Berkeley. The familial, social, and economic world of twentieth-century Detroit is one of the major subjects of Levine's work. His portraits of working-class Americans and his continuous examination of his Jewish immigrant inheritance (both based on real life and described through fictional characters) have left a testimony of mid-twentieth-century American life. Levine's working experience lent his poetry a profound skepticism concerning conventional American ideals. In his first two books, On the Edge (1963) and Not This Pig (1968), the poetry dwells on those who suddenly become aware that they are trapped in some murderous processes not of their own making. In 1968, Levine signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse to make tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. In his first two books, Levine was somewhat traditional in form and relatively constrained in expression. Beginning with They Feed They Lion, typically Levine's poems are free-verse monologues tending toward trimester or tetrameter The music of Levine's poetry depends on the tension between his line breaks and his syntax. The title poem of Levine's book 1933 (1974) is an example of the cascade of clauses and phrases one finds in his poetry. Other collections include The Names of the Lost, A Walk with Tom Jefferson, New Selected Poems, and the National Book Award-winning What Work Is. Awards 1973 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Frank O'Hara Prize, Guggenheim Foundation fellowship1977 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of Poets– The Names of the Lost (1975)1978 Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize for Poetry1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Ashes: Poems New and Old – 7 Years from Somewhere1980 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship1980 National Book Award for Poetry– Ashes: Poems New and Old1981 Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine1987 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Modern Poetry Association and the American Council for the Arts1991 National Book Award for Poetry and Los Angeles Times Book Prize – What Work Is1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry – The Simple Truth (1994)2011 Appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate)2013 Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award

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