Simple Truth : Poems

by LEVINE, PHILIP

• ISBN13: 9780679435808
• ISBN10: 0679435808
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Knopf

Summary

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 1995, Philip Levine goes from strength to strength, having received the National Book Ward for Poetry for his earlier book What Work Is. This is the first paperback edition of this text, about which Harold Bloom said, "The controlled pathos of every poem in the volume is immense, and gives me a new sense of Levine."

Table of Contents

On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane	p. 3
Ode for Mrs. William Settle	p. 5
Lame Ducks, McKesson and Robbins, 1945	p. 7
February 14th	p. 9
One Day	p. 10
Ask for Nothing	p. 13
Soul	p. 14
The Trade	p. 16
Llanto	p. 18
In the Dark	p. 19
Magpiety	p. 20
The Poem of Chalk	p. 27
Dreaming in Swedish	p. 29
Out by Dark	p. 30
The Return	p. 32
Getting There	p. 33
Blue	p. 36
Blue and Blue	p. 37
Tristan	p. 39
Dust and Memory	p. 41
The Escape	p. 42
The Simple Truth	p. 44
No Buyers	p. 47
Winter Words, Manhattan	p. 49
My Sister's Voice	p. 51
The Old Testament	p. 52
Photography	p. 54
My Brother Abel, the Wounded	p. 56
Edward Lieberman, Entrepreneur, Four Years After the Burnings on Okinawa	p. 58
Listen Carefully	p. 59
The Spanish Lesson	p. 61
My Mother with Purse the Summer They Murdered the Spanish Poet	p. 63
My Father with Cigarette Twelve Years before the Nazis Could Break his Heart	p. 65
Notes	p. 69
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