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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN-13
9780451493279
eBay Product ID (ePID)
224189430
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Lost Poets
Author
Philip Levine
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Poetry, Literary Theory
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
219mm
Item Width
135mm
Item Weight
344g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Philip Levine
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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