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• Philip Levine:

  My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you

• Philip Levine:

  If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole po

• Philip Levine:

  But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

• Philip Levine:

  My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

• Philip Levine:

  I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous inten

• Philip Levine:

  Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

• Philip Levine:

  It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was

• Philip Levine:

  The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

• Philip Levine:

  I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

• Philip Levine:

  I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.