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The last shift : poems / by Philip Levine ; edited by Edward Hirsch.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.E9 A6 2016b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levine, Philip, 1928-2015, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 79 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- Summary:
- "The final collection of new poems from one of our finest and most beloved poets. The poems in this wonderful collection touch all of the events and places that meant the most to Philip Levine. There are lyrical poems about his family and childhood, the magic of nighttime and the power of dreaming; tough poems about the heavy shift work at Detroit's auto plants, the Nazis, and bosses of all kinds; telling poems about his heroes--jazz players, artists, and working people of every description, even children. Other poems celebrate places and things he loved: the gifts of winter, dawn, a wall in Naples, an English hilltop, Andalusia. And he makes peace with Detroit: "Slow learner that I am, it took me one night/to discover that rain in New York City/is just like rain in Detroit. It gets you wet." It is a peace that comes to full fruition in a moving goodbye to his home town in the final poem in the collection, "The Last Shift.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- I
- Inheritance 3
- My Brother, the Artist, at Seven 5
- Your Turn 6
- 1934 7
- Leaves 9
- The Absent Gardener 11
- History 12
- Assembly 13
- Tail Tales 14
- Pennsylvania Pastoral 15
- Office Hours 16
- More Than You Gave 17
- The Future 21
- II
- Immortal Birds 27
- I Was Married on the Fiftieth Birthday of Pablo Neruda 28
- South 29
- The Privilege of Power 30
- A Wall in Naples and Nothing More 31
- Sicilian Voices 32
- Anatole 34
- Albion 36
- The Gatekeeper's Children 38
- Nightship 39
- In Another Country 40
- By the Waters of the Llobregat 42
- III
- A Dozen Dawn Songs, Plus One 47
- Urban Myths 52
- Rain in Winter 55
- The Angel Bernard 56
- Godspell 58
- Froggy Frenchman 59
- Louie Lies 61
- Zero for Conduct 63
- The Gift of Winter 65
- A Home Away 67
- Postcards 68
- Turkeys 70
- How to Get There 73
- The Last Shift 76.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi book."
- Other Format:
- Online version: Levine, Philip, 1928-2015. Last shift.
- ISBN:
- 9780451493262
- 0451493265
- OCLC:
- 939994162
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