← Philip LevineThey Feed They Lionby Philip LevinePoems on urban life, labor, and social witness in DetroitFind 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→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→