Philip Levine (1928 - Present)

Philip Levine was born in 1928 in Detroit, Michigan, where he was formally educated in the public schools and at Wayne University (now Wayne State University). After a succession of industrial jobs, he left the country before settling in Fresno, California, where he taught at the university there until his retirement. He has received many awards for his books of poems, most recently the National Book Award in 1991 for What Work Is, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Simple Truth.

The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.

	Poem	Comments
	Animals Are Passing From Our Lives	5 Comments
	You Can Have It	4 Comments
	They Feed They Lion	3 Comments
	M. Degas Teaches Art & Science At Durfee Intermediate School--Detroit, 1942	2 Comments
	A Woman Waking	1 Comment
	Another Song	1 Comment
	Bitterness	1 Comment
	The Red Shirt	1 Comment
	What Work Is	1 Comment
	A Sleepless Night
	A Theory Of Prosody
	Among Children
	An Abandoned Factory, Detroit
	An Ending
	Any Night
	At Bessemer
	Belle Isle, 1949
	Berenda Slough
	Black Stone On Top Of Nothing
	Call It Music
	Clouds
	Clouds Above The Sea
	Coming Close
	Detroit Grease Shop Poem
	Everything
	Father
	Fist
	For The Country
	Gangrene
	Gin
	Green Thumb
	Heaven
	Holding On
	Holy Day
	House Of Silence
	How Much Earth
	I Sing The Body Electric
	I Won, You Lost
	In A Light Time
	In A Vacant House
	In The New Sun
	Last Words
	Late Light
	Late Moon
	Mad Day In March
	Magpiety
	Making It Work
	Making Light Of It
	Milkweed
	Montjuich
	My Fathers, The Baltic
	Night Thoughts Over A Sick Child
	Night Words
	Noon
	Ode For Mrs. William Settle
	On The Meeting Of García Lorca And Hart Crane
	On The Murder Of Lieutenant Jose Del Castillo By The Falangist Bravo Martinez, July 12, 1936
	Once
	Passing Out
	Picture Postcard From The Other World
	Premonition At Twilight
	Red Dust
	Salts And Oils
	Sierra Kid
	Small Game
	Smoke
	Something Has Fallen
	Songs
	The Dead
	The Distant Winter
	The Drunkard
	The End Of Your Life
	The Grave Of The Kitchen Mouse
	The Helmet
	The House
	The Mercy
	The Negatives
	The New World
	The Present
	The Rains
	The Rat Of Faith
	The Return
	The Simple Truth
	The Turning
	The Unknowable
	The Water's Chant
	The Whole Soul
	Then
	Those Were The Days
	Told
	Voyages
	Waking In March
	Where We Live Now
	Wisteria