The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography

Levine, Philip

ISBN 10: 0679424067 / ISBN 13: 9780679424062

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1994

About this Item

First Edition, stated. Hardbound book. Signed by author on half-title page. Book is in Good+ condition, with light handling, tight binding, and thin short pen stroke (not a remainder mark) to red stained upper text block. Interior is clean, text is free of markings apart from faded "NEW" stamp to front free endpaper, and author's signature in black ink to half-title page. Dust jacket is in Good condition, with light overall handling and shelfwear, edgewear to tail of spine, slight toning to edges of jacket folds. Unclipped, and there is a diagonal crease to lower front fold, but jacket is free of chips or tears.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679424067
• ISBN 13: 9780679424062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 20 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

From one of our most celebrated poets - winner of two National Book Awards and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle - an extraordinary memoir that has dictated its own thrust and shape.
Philip Levine's The Bread of Time is an amalgam of celebration and quest. It celebrates the poets who were his teachers - particularly John Berryman and Yvor Winters, whose lives and work, Levine believes, have been misunderstood and misinterpreted. As the book progressed to include an account not only of his own childhood and young manhood in Detroit but also of his middle and later years in California and Spain, Levine realized that he was also striving to discover "how I became the particular person and poet I am." The resulting memoir is a double-edged revelation of the way writers grow. Witty, elegantly rendered in a prose as characteristically Levine's as his verse, it is superb - and essential - reading for everyone interested in contemporary poetry and poets.

Synopsis

This is an extraordinary memoir from one of our most celebrated poets. "The Bread of Time" is an amalgam of celebration and quest. In this memoir, Philip Levine celebrates the poets who were his teachers - particularly John Berryman and Yvor Winters, writers whose lives and work, he believes, have been misunderstood and misinterpreted. In the process of writing this account of his childhood and young manhood in Detroit and of his middle and later years in California and Spain, Levine came to realize that he was also engaged in a quest, striving to discover "how I am." The resulting work provides a double-edged revelation of the way writers grow. Witty and elegantly rendered in a prose that is as characteristically Levine's as his verse, this is superb - and essential - reading for anyone interested in contemporary poetry and poets.