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Poems from News of the World
by Philip Levine
Translated by Luigi Bonaffini
Philip Levine (b. January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan) is a
Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems
about working-class Detroit. He taught for over thirty years at the
English Department of California State University, Fresno and
held teaching positions at other universities as well. He has been
appointed to serve as the Poet Laureate of the United States for
2011–2012.
Levine published his first collection of poems, On the Edge
(The Stone Wall Press), in 1963, followed by Not This Pig (Wesleyan
University Press) in 1968. Since then, Levine has published
numerous books of poetry, most recently News of the World (Alfred
A. Knopf, 2010); Breath (2004); The Mercy (1999); The Simple Truth
(1994), which won the Pulitzer Prize; What Work Is (1991), which
won the National Book Award; New Selected Poems (1991); Ashes:
Poems New and Old (Atheneum, 1979), which received the National
Book Critics Circle Award and the first American Book Award for
Poetry; 7 Years From Somewhere (1979), which won the National Book
Critics Circle Award; The Names of the Lost (1975), which won the
1977 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American
Poets; and They Feed They Lion (1973).