{"product_id":"the-last-shift-poems-paperback","title":"The Last Shift: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Levine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback--the final collection of new poems from one of our finest and most beloved poets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in this wonderful collection touch all of the events and places that meant the most to Philip Levine. There are lyrical poems about his family and childhood, the magic of nighttime and the power of dreaming; tough poems about the heavy shift work at Detroit's auto plants, the Nazis, and bosses of all kinds; telling poems about his heroes--jazz players, artists, and working people of every description, even children. Other poems celebrate places and things he loved: the gifts of winter, dawn, a wall in Naples, an English hilltop, Andalusia. And he makes peace with Detroit: \"Slow learner that I am, it took me one night \/ to discover that rain in New York City \/ is just like rain in Detroit. It gets you wet.\" It is a peace that comes to full fruition in a moving goodbye to his home town in the final poem in the collection, \"The Last Shift.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePHILIP LEVINE was born in 1928 in Detroit and graduated from Wayne University (now Wayne State University). After a succession of industrial jobs, he attended the writing workshop at the University of Iowa, where he received an MFA in 1957. He settled in Fresno, California, where he taught at the state university until his retirement, and afterward served as poet-in-residence at New York University for more than a decade. He received many awards for his books of poems, including two National Book Awards--in 1980 for \u003ci\u003eAshes: Poems Old and New, \u003c\/i\u003e and in 1991 for \u003ci\u003eWhat Work Is\u003c\/i\u003e--and the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for \u003ci\u003eThe Simple Truth\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2011 he was appointed poet laureate of the United States. He died in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53329652154675,"sku":"9780451493774","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UOTiFAnBLj9780451493774.webp?v=1778171650","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-last-shift-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}