Philip Levine
Philip Levine
Philip Levinewas a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well. He served on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets from 2000 to 2006, and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 January 1928
CountryUnited States of America
American poets have been criticized for anything you can think of. For being too English, recently for not being English enough.
I'm in a situation now, and I have been for ten or fifteen years, where there's no point in my being in a hurry.
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.
Well, don't kid yourself, I got plenty of crummy poems that I think I might use.