The Mercy: Poems by Levine, Philip

The Mercy: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375701351)

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Format: Paperback
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The Mercy: Poems by Levine, Philip

The Mercy: Poems

$16.00
The Mercy: Poems by Levine, Philip

The Mercy: Poems

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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Philip Levine's new collection of poems (his first since The Simple Truth was awarded the Pulitzer Prize) is a book of journeys: the necessary ones that each of us takes from innocence to experience, from youth to age, from confusion to clarity, from sanity to madness and back again, from life to death, and occasionally from defeat to triumph. The book's mood is best captured in the closing lines of the title poem, which takes its name from the ship that brought the poet's mother to America: A nine-year-old girl travels all night by train with one suitcase and an orange. She learns that mercy is something you can eat again and again while the juice spills over your chin, you can wipe it away with the back of your hands and you can never get enough.

Author: Philip Levine
ISBN-10: 0375701354
ISBN-13: 9780375701351
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2000
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 9.01h x 5.78w x 0.41d
By Philip Levine
By Philip Levine
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Philip Levine was born in 1928 in Detroit, where he was formally educated in the public schools and at Wayne University (now Wayne State University). After a succession of industrial jobs, he left the country before settling in Fresno, California, where he taught at the university there until his retirement. He has received many awards for his books of poems, most recently the National Book Award in 1991 for What Work Is, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Simple Truth.

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