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.

Page Views	Poem	Comments
5126	You Can Have It	4 Comments
3909	What Work Is	1 Comment
3852	They Feed They Lion	3 Comments
3067	Late Light
2978	I Won, You Lost
2412	A Woman Waking	1 Comment
2268	Night Words
2019	Animals Are Passing From Our Lives	5 Comments
1944	Among Children
1815	The Simple Truth
1508	At Bessemer
1500	A Sleepless Night
1354	An Ending
1312	Gin
1132	Holding On
1111	Father
1062	Waking In March
1032	Heaven
996	On The Murder Of Lieutenant Jose Del Castillo By The Falangist Bravo Martinez, July 12, 1936
950	Clouds
946	In The New Sun
934	M. Degas Teaches Art & Science At Durfee Intermediate School--Detroit, 1942	2 Comments
916	Those Were The Days
910	Picture Postcard From The Other World
891	Bitterness	1 Comment
870	Belle Isle, 1949
850	Coming Close
849	The Red Shirt	1 Comment
837	Call It Music
811	The End Of Your Life
802	Last Words
800	An Abandoned Factory, Detroit
796	Smoke
787	Red Dust
783	Clouds Above The Sea
781	The Mercy
774	Detroit Grease Shop Poem
767	The Dead
763	The Drunkard
748	Night Thoughts Over A Sick Child
734	Everything
729	A Theory Of Prosody
709	Songs
706	Another Song	1 Comment
706	The Present
693	Once
689	I Sing The Body Electric
684	Ode For Mrs. William Settle
684	The Helmet
682	The House
677	Premonition At Twilight
666	My Fathers, The Baltic
661	The Turning
651	The Rains
649	Any Night
647	Holy Day
641	House Of Silence
636	Wisteria
634	Magpiety
633	Told
633	Black Stone On Top Of Nothing
619	The New World
618	Milkweed
596	Voyages
592	The Negatives
580	Where We Live Now
577	Making It Work
574	How Much Earth
572	The Water's Chant
569	For The Country
567	The Rat Of Faith
556	Fist
556	Making Light Of It
546	The Whole Soul
542	On The Meeting Of García Lorca And Hart Crane
540	The Return
539	Something Has Fallen
535	Small Game
526	Late Moon
520	The Unknowable
515	Salts And Oils
514	Sierra Kid
504	Passing Out
489	Berenda Slough
482	In A Vacant House
472	Green Thumb
464	The Grave Of The Kitchen Mouse
462	Then
461	Gangrene
441	Noon
438	In A Light Time
438	The Distant Winter
405	Mad Day In March
391	Montjuich