Starlight | Critical Overview
Ashes: Poems Old and New, the collection of poems in which "Starlight" appeared, received, along with 7 Years from Somewhere, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the American Book Award in 1979 and 1980, and was widely hailed as Levine's best book to date. Reviewing Ashes in Soho Weekly News, Rochelle Ratner writes that "The remnants of his working-class childhood carry through an identification with the workers, the oppressed, he meets now, as if in a romanticized attempt to call back his childhood." Commenting on Levine's "great compassion and...
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