What Work Is
by Levine, Philip
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- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679401660
- ISBN 13
- 9780679401667
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Synopsis
Philip Levine was born in 1928 in Detroit and was formally educated there, in the public schools and at Wayne University (now Wayne State University). After a succession of industrial jobs, he left the city for good and lived in various parts of the country before settling in Fresno, California, where he taught at the state university until his retirement. For twelve autumns he served as poet in residence at New York University. He has received many awards for his books of poems, including the National Book Award in 1991 for What Work Is and the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Simple Truth. In 2011 he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States. He divides his time between Fresno, California, and Brooklyn, New York.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GRP18685974
- Title
- What Work Is
- Author
- Levine, Philip
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679401660
- ISBN 13
- 9780679401667
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1991-04
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