Not This Pig: Poems

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Wesleyan University Press, 1968 - Poetry - 80 pages
A compelling second collection of poetry. "Not This Pigs shows Levine] to be a poet of growing power and strangeness. In most of his poems Levine sketches in an apparently concrete experience, but he blurs the edges so that the reader is propelled into the realms of mystery."-Judson Jerome, Saturday Review ".one of the best books of poetry to come out of the sixties.his perspective is usually so healthy and so complete that I have come back to the poems again and again."-James McMichael, The Southern Review
 

Contents

The Book
18
Blasting from Heaven
24
Family Plan
30
The OneEyed King
37
Silent in America
50
Yo Soy Americano
56
Spanish Lesson
63
Heaven
69
The Second Angel
76
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About the author (1968)

PHILLIP LEVINE holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Wayne State University. He has published many books of poetry – of which Not This Pig was his second – as well as translations of poetry from the Spanish. Among his many awards are the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the American Book Award in 1980, and, most recently, the National Book Award in Poetry for 1991. He teaches at California State University and lives in Fresno.

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