Stranger to Nothing - Couverture souple

Levine, Philip

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852247371 ISBN 13 : 9781852247379

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Poetry Book Society Special Commendation

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.’

A poet of memory and invention, Philip Levine was always writing poems which searched 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. He was appointed US Poet Laureate in 2011 at the age of 83.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Philip Levine (1928-2015) was born in Detroit, where he studied at Wayne University. After working as a labourer, he settled in Fresno, California, and also lived in other countries for some time, including Spain. He taught at Fresno until his retirement, later dividing his time between Fresno and Brooklyn, New York. Levine received many awards for his poetry, including the National Book Award (1980 & 1991), and the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Simple Truth. He published 17 collections of poems and two books of essays, and was appointed US Poet Laureate in 2011 at the age of 83. Stranger to Nothing: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2006) covers his American collections from On the Edge (1963) to Breath (2004). It was his first UK publication since Secker published an earlier Selected Poems in 1984. He also published a later collection, News of the World (Knopf, 2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852247371
• ISBN 13: 9781852247379
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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