Stranger to Nothing: Selected Poems

by Philip Levine

Philip Levine was the authentic voice of America's urban poor. Born in 1928, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he spent his early years doing a succession of heavy labouring jobs. Trying to write poetry 'for people for whom there is no poetry', he chronicled the lives of the people he grew up with and worked with in Detroit: 'Their presence seemed utterly lacking in the poetry I inherited at age 20, so I've spent the last 40-some years trying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852247371
• ISBN13: 9781852247379
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.5" x 6.3"