The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (Signed First Edition)

LEVINE, Philip

ISBN 10: 0679424067 / ISBN 13: 9780679424062

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1994

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 296 pages. A memoir from this acclaimed poet and writer who won two National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2011-2012. A near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the bottom of the front panel. Signed and nicely inscribed by Levine on the half title page.

Seller Inventory # 198649

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679424067
• ISBN 13: 9780679424062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Memoirs & Autobiographies

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.