“I had had a dream, and that dream was a warning of what might happen to me if I rejected what I’d been and who I was.”

Levine 3Philip Levine’s essay “Entering Poetry,” describes the day he began writing about the people he had worked with in Detroit auto factories.  “When I closed my eyes and looked into the past, I did not see the blazing color of the forges of nightmare or the torn faces of … Read More