Sweet will [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / by Philip Levine

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462903403321
• Autore: Levine Philip <1928-2015.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Iowa City, : Prairie Lights Books, 2013
• ISBN: 0-9859325-1-1
• Edizione: [1st Prairie Lights Books ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (65 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetti: American poetry; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; I; Voyages; Salts and Oils; Those Were the Days; The White Iris; Wisteria; Look; The Present; Sweet Will; II; A Poem With No Ending; III; An Ending; Late Light; The House; Last Words; An Ordinary Morning; Then; Jewish Graveyards, Italy
• Sommario/riassunto: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine published Sweet Will, his eleventh volume of poems, in 1985. His last book with Atheneum, it has been unavailable for many years. Because of its subdued and thoughtful nature, it was seen as a transitional book for Levine, one that presaged the tone of much that was to come. Peter Stitt, writing in the Kenyon Review, called it "the quietest book that Philip Levine has ever written," concluding that "though the river that glides through it is still on the surface, the sweetness of its will runs deep indeed." And Dave Smith, writi