10
Aug
2011
Ball point pen on today's newsprint
Forged in industrial Detroit, the Pulitzer Prize winning, workingman's poet is named United States Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress.
from today's NYT
I liked this snippet from a 1994 Los Angeles Times article:
An amateur boxer, Levine enjoyed physical work at first. He believed working with his hands would leave his mind free for poetry. Indeed, when asked which job was the worst, he likes to say Detroit Transmission was pretty bad, but the semester he spent teaching poetry to a classroom full of future lawyers and doctors at Princeton was worse.
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Good reading this. Refreshing. I'll share: "Something was being called for/by the words said/heard to gather/four souls for mystery/holy still." from "Walking on Words" '97
Called for indeed. Thanks for sharing Pat.
Wonderful portrait--I was pleased to see this happen
Lovely post! I'm glad to become acquainted with Levine, but I'm most grateful to him for introducing me to Galway Kinnell: A little bit about my discovery of Kinnell: http://theoncominghope.blogspot.com/2011/08/discovering-new-old-poets-galway.html