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Loading... My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetryby Philip Levine
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. My Lost Poets is one of the most wonderful books on poetry, writing and literature that I have ever read. Philip Levine, in his quiet, humble and unassuming way, demonstrates what made him one of America's great poets. His stories of Thom Gunn and John Berryman, his sweet praise of Roberta Spear and Larry Levis, and the history of poetry in the Spanish Civil War, as well as his own history of how he came to be a poet, make this an extraordinary collection of essays. It also makes me very sad that Philip Levine is no longer here to write. ( ) no reviews | add a review
"Essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand himself as a poet, the events and people that he wrote about, and the older poets who influenced him. In prose both as superbly rendered as his poetry and as down-to-earth and easy as speaking, Levine reveals the things that made him the poet he became. In the title essay, originally the final speech of his poet laureate year, he recounts how as a boy he composed little speeches walking in the night woods near his house and how he later realized these were his first poems. He wittily takes on the poets he studied with in the Iowa Writing Program: John Berryman, who was his great teacher and lifelong friend, and Robert Lowell, who was neither. His deepest influences--jazz, Spain, the working people of Detroit--are reflected in many of the pieces. There are essays on Spanish poets he admires, William Carlos Williams, Wordsworth, Keats, and others. A wonderful, moving collection of writings that add to our knowledge and appreciation of Philip Levine--both the man and the poet"--
"Essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand himself as a poet, the events and people that he wrote about, and the older poets who influenced him"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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