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The Simple Truth

Poems (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Poems (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By Philip Levine

By Philip Levine

By Philip Levine

By Philip Levine

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Paperback $22.00

Sep 03, 1996 | ISBN 9780679765844

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Aug 31, 2011 | ISBN 9780307559739

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    About The Simple Truth

    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.

    About The Simple Truth

    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.

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    See all books by Philip Levine

    Also by Philip Levine

    The Last Shift
    My Lost Poets
    A Walk with Tom Jefferson
    News of the World
    Breath
    See all books by Philip Levine

    About Philip Levine

    PHILIP LEVINE was born in 1928 in Detroit and attended 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… More about Philip Levine

    About Philip Levine

    PHILIP LEVINE was born in 1928 in Detroit and attended 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… More about Philip Levine

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Paperback | $22.00
    Published by Knopf
    Sep 03, 1996 | 80 Pages | 5-3/4 x 9 | ISBN 9780679765844

    Category: Poetry | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Knopf
    Aug 31, 2011 | 80 Pages | ISBN 9780307559739

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    Praise

    “I am a longtime admirer of Philip Levine’s poetry, but until now I thought he could never surpass The Names of the Lost, a book I love deeply. But The Simple Truth deserves its title—I wonder if any American poet since Walt Whitman himself has written elegies this consistently magnificent. The controlled pathos of every poem in the volume is immense, and gives me a new sense of Levine.”
    —Harold Bloom

    Awards

    Pulitzer Prize WINNER 1995

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