Philip Levine was the authentic voice of America's urban poor. Born
in 1928, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he spent his early
years doing a succession of heavy labouring jobs. Trying to write
poetry 'for people for whom there is no poetry', he chronicled the
lives of the people he grew up with and worked with in Detroit:
'Their presence seemed utterly lacking in the poetry I inherited at
age 20, so I've spent the last 40-some years trying to add to our
poetry what wasn't there.' Much of his poetry addresses the joys
and sufferings of industrial life, with radiant feeling, as well as
painful irony: 'It took me a long time to be able to write about it
without snarling or snapping. I had to temper the violence I felt
toward those who maimed and cheated me with a tenderness toward
those who had touched and blessed me.' Always a poet of memory and
invention, Philip Levine has continually written poems which search
for universal truths. His plain-speaking poetry is a testament to
the durability of love, the strength of the human spirit and the
persistence of life in the face of death. Poetry Book Society
Special Commendation.
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