← Philip LevineAshesby Philip LevinePoems meditating on mortality, heritage, and family legacyFind 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→1933Elegiac poems reflecting on Depression-era Detroit and memory→What Work IsPoems celebrating labor, dignity, and working lives→