Hats off to poet Philip Levine, a former auto worker in Detroit (and UAW member), who has won the $100,000 lifetime achievement award from the Academy of American Poets. One of his award-winning collections of poems: "What Work Is”: In an essay quoted on the academy’s Web site, Mr. Levine, now 85, described the impulse to put his experiences on the assembly line into verse. “I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own,” he wrote. “I thought too 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.” Read more: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes/2013/09/13/philip-levine-is-awarded-100000-poetry-prize/
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 18:05:22 +0000
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