← Philip Levine1933by Philip LevineElegiac poems reflecting on Depression-era Detroit and memoryFind on Amazon↗About the authorPhilip LevineAmerican 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.More by Philip LevineNot This PigEarly poems on working-class dignity and industrial landscapes→They Feed They LionPoems on urban life, labor, and social witness in Detroit→AshesPoems meditating on mortality, heritage, and family legacy→What Work IsPoems celebrating labor, dignity, and working lives→