Poets/Philip Levine

Philip Levine

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Two young men—you just might call them boys— …

Philip Levine

He tells me in Bangkok he’s robbed …

Philip Levine

We stripped in the first warm spring night …

Philip Levine

The little girl won’t eat her sandwich; …

Philip Levine

Some days I catch a rhythm, almost a song …

Philip Levine

Newspaper says the boy killed by someone, …

Philip Levine

No, not in the flesh — if Jesus was ever …

Philip Levine

Turn left off Henry onto Middagh Street …

Philip Levine

A rectangular Bulova, my Zadie …

Philip Levine

As a boy he played alone in the fields …

Philip Levine

We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in July and August …

Philip Levine

Can you imagine the air filled with smoke? …

Philip Levine

This is the house of the very rich. …

Philip Levine

Again the …

Philip Levine

Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter, …

Philip Levine

We stand in the rain in a long line …

Philip Levine

My brother comes home from work …

Philip Levine

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