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Levine, Philip

 
9780375401381: The Mercy: Poems
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ISBN 10: 0375401385 ISBN 13: 9780375401381
Editorial: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999

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A collection of poems on journeys--from innocence to experience, from youth to age, and from life to death

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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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e'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.

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Editorial
Alfred A. Knopf
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0375401385
ISBN 13 
9780375401381
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
81
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9780375701351: The Mercy: Poems

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ISBN 10:  0375701354 ISBN 13:  9780375701351
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000
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