Author

Publication

1994 - A.A. Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

74,000 words, Guess

Page Count

296 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing663812
  • Goodreads1140340

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3562.E9 Z462 1994
  • DDCB

Description

"Philip Levine's The Bread of Time is an amalgam of celebration and quest. It celebrates the poets who were his teachers - particularly John Berryman and Yvor Winters, whose lives and work, Levine believes, have been misunderstood and misinterpreted. As the book progressed to include an account not only of his own childhood and young manhood in Detroit but also of his middle and later years in California and Spain, Levine realized that he was also striving to discover "how I became the particular person and poet I am." The resulting memoir is a double-edged revelation of the way writers grow. Witty, elegantly rendered in a prose as characteristically Levine's as his verse, it is superb - and essential - reading for everyone interested in contemporary poetry and poets."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

People

Philip Levine (1928-)

Times

Other Editions

  • The bread of time: toward an autobiographyA.A. Knopf1994-01-01

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