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Lost Lion
Philip Levine, poet and son of Detroit, died on Valentine’s Day. He was an accomplished man who’d lived a long life, but anytime we lose a voice like his the silence it leaves behind is a roaring one. Levine’s poetry reached back to William Carlos Williams’ confrontations with the blunt facts of reality, and the [...]
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Tagged Detroit, Ford, German, heroics, Highland Park, Philip Levine, Poetry, shit, Wagner, Walt Whitman, What Work Is, William Carlos Williams
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