Book chapter
Winter, 1985
Coming close : forty essays on Philip Levine, p.94
University of Iowa Press
07/03/2013
Abstract
It is unlikely I would have gone on to live my life in poetry, for better and worse, had I not taken a class with Philip Levine in 1985. I was nineteen at the time. I had never met a published writer, or an artist of any kind, and although I had read a small amount of poetry that had moved me deeply—The Waste Land, Howl, a few poems of Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas—and had even, for some time, carried around a notebook of my own clumsy effusions, somehow it didn’t occur to me that “poets”
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Winter, 1985
- Creators
- MARK Levine
- Contributors
- MARI L’ESPERANCE (Editor)TOMÁS Q. Morín (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Coming close : forty essays on Philip Levine, p.94
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/03/2013
- Academic Unit
- English; Creative Writing
- Record Identifier
- 9984445471802771
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