Philip Levine

Bibliography

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POETRY

• On the Edge (limited edition), Stone Wall Press (Iowa City, IA), 1961, second edition, 1963.
• Silent in America: Vivas for Those Who Failed (limited edition), Shaw Avenue Press (Iowa City, IA), 1965.
• Not This Pig, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1968.
• 5 Detroits, Unicorn Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1970.
• Thistles: A Poem Sequence (limited edition), Turret Books (London, England), 1970.
• Pili's Wall, Unicorn Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1971, second edition, 1980.
• Red Dust, illustrated by Marcia Mann, Kayak (Santa Cruz, CA), 1971.
• They Feed They Lion, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1972, reprinted, Knopf (New York, NY), 1999.
• 1933, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1974.
• New Season (pamphlet), Graywolf Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1975.
• On the Edge and Over: Poems Old, Lost, and New, Cloud Marauder (Oakland, CA), 1976.
• The Names of the Lost (limited edition), Windhover Press (Iowa City, IA), 1976, 2nd edition, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1976.
• 7 Years from Somewhere, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1979.
• Ashes: Poems New and Old, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1979.
• One for the Rose, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1981.
• Selected Poems, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1984.
• Sweet Will, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1985.
• A Walk with Tom Jefferson, Knopf (New York, NY), 1988.
• New Selected Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 1991.
• What Work Is, Knopf (New York, NY), 1991.
• The Simple Truth, Knopf (New York, NY), 1994.
• Unselected Poems, Greenhouse Review Press (Santa Cruz, CA), 1997.
• The Mercy, Knopf (New York, NY), 1999.
• Breath: Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 2004.
• News of the World, Knopf (New York, NY), 2009.

Sound recordings include Philip Levine Reading His Poems with Comment, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1975; Bicentennial Poetry Discussion, 1976; The Poetry and Voice of Philip Levine, Caedmon, 1976; Hear Me, Watershed Tapes; Philip Levine, 1986; and Mark Turpin and Philip Levine Reading Their Poems in the Mumford Room, 1997.

OTHER

• Don't Ask (interviews), University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1981.
• (With Orlando Patterson and Norman Rush) Earth, Stars, and Writers (lectures), Library of Congress (Washington, DC), 1992.
• The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (memoir), Knopf (New York, NY), 1994.
• So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2002.

EDITOR

• (With Henri Coulette) Character and Crisis: A Contemporary Reader, McGraw (New York, NY), 1966.
• (And translator with Ernesto Trejo) Jaime Sabines, Tarumba: The Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines, Twin Peaks Press (San Francisco, CA), 1979.
• (With Ada Long, and translator) Gloria Fuertes, Off the Map: Selected Poems, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1984.
• (With D. Wojahn and B. Henderson) The Pushcart Prize XI, Pushcart (Wainscott, NY), 1986.
• (Selector and author of introduction) The Essential Keats, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1987.
• (Author of introduction) Dennis Sampson, Forgiveness, Milkweed Editions, 1990.
• (Author of foreword) Larry Levis, Elegy, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1997.

Contributor of poems to anthologies, including Midland, Random House, 1961; New Poets of England and America, Meridian, 1962; Poet's Choice, Dial, 1962; American Poems, Southern Illinois University Press, 1964; and Naked Poetry, Bobbs-Merrill, 1969. Contributor of poems to periodicals, including New Yorker, Poetry, New York Review of Books, Hudson Review, Paris Review, and Harper's.