Great Regulars: [Philip Levine] can write about working

in an automotive plant, swimming in a polluted river, or the weariness of factory labor.

His poems are often, not always, long and skinny, with a deceptively casual flow, more like prose at times than poetry, although he rarely fails to tighten the line to a tautness that is deeply lyrical.

from Jay Parini: Vermont Public Radio: Poets Of The People

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