Philip Levine

Furtherreading

Other info : Career | Bibliography

BOOKS

• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1980.
• Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.
• Mills, Ralph J. Jr., Cry of the Human: Essays on Contemporary American Poetry, University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 1975.
• Molesworth, Charles, The Fierce Embrace: A Study of Contemporary American Poetry, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1979.
• On the Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing, edited by Christopher Buckley, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1991.

PERIODICALS

• America, January 13, 1996, p. 19; January 13, 1996, David Sofield, review of The Simple Truth, p. 19.
• American Poetry Review, November, 1972; May, 1973; March, 1974; May, 1974; May, 1977; November-December, 1979, pp. 36-37.
• Antioch Review, spring/summer, 1977; spring, 1982, David St. John, review of One for the Rose, pp. 225-234.
• Atlantic Monthly, April, 1999, review of The Mercy, p. 108.
• Bloomsbury Review, March, 1996, review of The Simple Truth, p. 24.
• Booklist, March 15, 1999, Ray Olson, review of The Mercy, p. 1278.
• Boston Globe, February 2, 1994, p. 63.
• Carleton Miscellany, fall, 1968.
• Chelsea, number 65, 1998, review of Unselected Poems, p. 142.
• Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1994, sec. 5, p. 3.
• Chicago Tribune Book World, August 5, 1984.
• Commonweal, October 12, 1979.
• Detroit Magazine, February 26, 1978.
• Georgia Review, spring, 1980; winter, 1994, Tod Marshall, review of The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography, pp. 821-24.
• Harper's, January, 1980.
• Hudson Review, winter, 1979-80.
• Kenyon Review, fall, 1989; summer, 1992, David Baker, review of What Work Is, pp. 166-73.
• Library Journal, April 15, 1997, Steven Ellis, review of Unselected Poems, p. 85; March 15, 1999, Graham Christian, review of The Mercy, p. 83.
• Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1984; May 16, 1995, p. A1.
• Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 21, 1984, Clayton Eshleman, review of Selected Poems; September 8, 1991, p. 11; August 30, 1992, p. 6; January 16, 1994, Richard Eder, review of The Bread of Time, p. 3.
• Nation, February 2, 1980; December 30, 1991, p. 864.
• New Leader, January 17, 1977; August 13, 1979; December 27, 1993, Phoebe Pettingell, review of The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography, pp. 12-13.
• New York Review of Books, April 25, 1968; September 20, 1973; April 3, 1975; December 17, 1981, Helen Vendler, review of One for the Rose.
• New York Times, May 29, 1985.
• New York Times Book Review, July 16, 1972; February 20, 1977; October 7, 1979, Herbert Leibowitz, review of Ashes: Poems New and Old; September 12, 1982; August 5, 1984; December 8, 1991, p. 7; May 31, 1992, p. 28; February 20, 1994, Dana Gioia, review of The Bread of Time, p. 14; February 2, 1997, review of The Simple Truth, p. 28; April 18, 1999, Adam Kirsch, "Blue Collar Verse."
• New York Times Magazine, February 3, 1980.
• North American Review, November, 1998, review of Unselected Poems, p. 37.
• Parnassus, fall/ winter, 1972; fall/winter, 1974; fall/winter, 1977; spring/summer, 1978.
• Poetry, July, 1972; March, 1975; August, 1977; December, 1980; December, 1989; May, 1992, p. 94.
• Prairie Schooner, winter, 1974; summer, 1997, review of The Simple Truth, p. 179.
• Progressive, August, 1999, review of The Mercy, p. 44.
• Publishers Weekly, September 26, 1994, p. 58; November 7, 1994, p. 41; January 25, 1999, review of The Mercy, p. 90.
• Saturday Review, June 1, 1968; March 11, 1972; September 7, 1977.
• Sewanee Review, spring, 1976.
• Shenandoah, summer, 1972.
• Southern Review, spring, 1992; summer, 1999, review of The Mercy, p. 621,
• Time, June 25, 1979.
• Times Literary Supplement, September 11, 1981; July 2, 1982.
• Village Voice Literary Supplement, May, 1982; July 19, 1988, Thomas Hackett, review of A Walk with Tom Jefferson.
• Virginia Quarterly Review, autumn, 1972; spring, 1995, pp. 64-65.
• Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1994, p. A18.
• Washington Post, February 14, 1994, p. D2.
• Washington Post Book World, August 5, 1984, Joel Canarroe, review of Selected Poems, p. 3.
• Western Humanities Review, autumn, 1972.
• World Literature Today, spring, 1995, Mary Kaiser, review of The Bread of Time, pp. 371-372; winter, 2002, David Rogers, review of The Mercy, p. 154.
• Yale Review, autumn, 1972, Marie Borroff, review of They Feed They Lion; autumn, 1980.

OTHER

• Atlantic Unbound, http://www.atlantic.com/ (April 9, 1999), Wen Stephenson, "A Useful Poetry: An Interview with Philip Levine."