Philip Levine
American poet of working-class Detroit who wrote about industrial labor with lyrical intensity. His collection What Work Is won the National Book Award and he later served as Poet Laureate.
Works
- Not This PigEarly poems on working-class dignity and industrial landscapes
- They Feed They LionPoems on urban life, labor, and social witness in Detroit
- 1933Elegiac poems reflecting on Depression-era Detroit and memory
- AshesPoems meditating on mortality, heritage, and family legacy
- What Work IsPoems celebrating labor, dignity, and working lives