What Work Is (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Levine
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Language or languages, Beauty, Human behavior, Labor, Industrialization, Chemicals, Machinery
Although they are rarely linked in anthologies or literary histories, a group of poets—a chronological cluster akin to a generation—who are rarely thought of as having very much in common have flowered at the same time and have been working steadily to create a distinguished, impressive individual oeuvre. What they share is a distinctive personal voice, an individual sense of language and form, a vision of society that permits a moral critique, and a resistance to trends and temporary fashions. Foremost among these attributes is the specificity of voice that each poet has achieved,...
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