Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Great Regulars: Philip Levine: It should be there.

Yes, it should be there. My attitude toward the work changed enormously over the years. At the time, I hated it. When, I would say, in my late 30s and early 40s, I realized that this world I thought was going to stop me from writing a--writing a decent body of poetry had in fact become central to my writing poetry.

And I began to feel that I was really, in some ways, very fortunate, especially meeting the people that I met.

from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: Working-Class Poet Levine Named Nation's Next Laureate

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