News of the World - Softcover

Levine, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375711902 ISBN 13: 9780375711909

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2011

In this "characteristically wise" (The New York Times Book Review) collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Philip Levine brings us finely made, powerfully telling imagery from the worlds of hand, heart, and mind.

Review:

"All the earmarks of a valedictory testament, what with its autumnal ruminations on personal history and its haunted remembrances of things past, yet Levine is too canny a craftsman to settle for dutiful curtain calls, and too much the hard-bitten ironist to fall prey to false nostalgia. If certain obsessions here are bound to strike longtime readers as old news (innocence and experience, manual labor and class struggle), the visceral language that fleshes the poems out still feels hot off the press." --David Barber, The Boston Globe

About the Author:

Philip Levine was born in 1928 in Detroit. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including the National Book Award for What Work Is and the Pulitzer Prize for The Simple Truth. He divides his time between Fresno, California, and Brooklyn, New York.

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0375711902
• ISBN 13: 9780375711909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80