Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Great Regulars: [Philip Levine] was selected from a long

list of nominees by James Billington, the librarian of Congress, who said on Monday, "I find him an extraordinary discovery because he introduced me to a whole new world I hadn't connected to in poetry before."

"He's the laureate, if you like, of the industrial heartland," Mr. Billington added. "It's a very, very American voice. I don't know that in other countries you get poetry of that quality about the ordinary workingman."

from Charles McGrath: The New York Times: Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate

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