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Search more than 3, biographies of contemporary and classic poets. Philip Levine was born in Detroit on January 10, After graduation, Levine worked at a number of industrial jobs, including the night shift at the Chevrolet Gear and Axle factory, reading and writing poems in his off hours. In , after teaching technical writing in Iowa City, Levine travelled to California, where he hoped to relocate with his wife and two children.

Levine was welcomed by the poet Yvor Winters , who agreed to house the aspiring poet until he found a place to live, and later chose Levine for a Stanford Writing Fellowship.

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Throughout his career, Levine published numerous books of poetry, including News of the World Alfred A. Knopf, ; Breath Alfred A. I thought, too, that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my work played in it—I could embrace it with some degree of joy, an element conspicuously missing from my life.

For two years, he served as chair of the literature panel of the National Endowment for the Arts. In , Levine was named the eighteenth U. In , he received the Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art of poetry by the Academy of American Poets. After retiring from teaching, Levine divided his time between Brooklyn, New York, and Fresno, until his death on February 14, Knopf , were published posthumously in Search Submit.

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