The Simple Truth
Poems (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Published on 31. August 2011
80 pages
978-0-307-55973-9 (ISBN)
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1995
Written in a voice that moves between elegy and prayer, The Simple Truth contains thirty-three poems whose aim is to weave a complex tapestry of myth, history (both public and private), family, memory, and invention in a search for truths so basic and universal they often escape us all.
Written in a voice that moves between elegy and prayer, The Simple Truth contains thirty-three poems whose aim is to weave a complex tapestry of myth, history (both public and private), family, memory, and invention in a search for truths so basic and universal they often escape us all.
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I
- On the Meeting of García Lorca and Hart Crane
- Ode for Mrs. William Settle
- Lame Ducks, McKesson and Robbins, 1945
- February 14th
- One Day
- Ask for Nothing
- Soul
- The Trade
- Llanto
- In the Dark
- Magpiety
- II
- The Poem of Chalk
- Dreaming in Swedish
- Out by Dark
- The Return
- Getting There
- Blue
- Blue and Blue
- Tristan
- Dust and Memory
- The Escape
- The Simple Truth
- III
- No Buyers
- Winter Words, Manhattan
- My Sister's Voice
- The Old Testament
- Photography
- My Brother Abel, the Wounded
- Edward Lieberman, Entrepreneur, Four Years After the Burnings on Okinawa
- Listen Carefully
- The Spanish Lesson
- My Mother with Purse the Summer They Murdered the Spanish Poet
- My Father with Cigarette Twelve Years before the Nazis Could Break his Heart
- Notes
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
