Phillip Levine

Why I Hate “The Arts”

by Joe Weil Aesthetics
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Perhaps it is the ends of art I hate–the way it is “valued” rather than integrated into the dynamic of being alive.

The Actual Voice of Someone Else: Philip Levine’s “News of the World”

by Evan Hansen Poetry and Poetics
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News of the World certainly offers some typical-feeling moves to those familiar with Levine’s oeuvres, it also contains formal variations and preoccupations that will amuse and surprise both his admirers and those who don’t yet know his work.