Philip Levine “What Work Is”

Another contemporary American poet (he passed in 2015), Philip Levine wrote most of his poems about working-class Detroit, where he grew up and started working at automobile factories at the age of 14. You can hear him reading “What Work Is” here. 

Detroit Publishing Co., Publisher. Four o’clock shift, Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Mich. [Between 1910 and 1920] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016816050/>.

Read “What Work Is” here. 

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