They Feed They Lion and The Names of the Lost: Poems [Paperback]

Philip Levine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 30, 1999

A major reissue in one volume of two early books by one of our finest living poets. In an essay on his career, Edward Hirsch describes They Feed They Lion as his "most eloquent book of industrial Detroit . . . The magisterial title poem--with its fierce diction and driving rhythms--is Levine's hymn to communal rage, to acting in unison." Of The Names of the Lost: "In these poems Levine explicitly links the people of his childhood whom 'no one remembers' with his doomed heroes from the Spanish Civil War."

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Alone
And The Trains Go On
Angel 14
Angel Butcher
The Angels Of Detroit
Another Life
Ask The Roses
Autumn
Autumn Again
Belle Isle, 1949
Breath
The Children's Crusade
Coming Home, Detroit, 1968
Cry For Nothing
The Cutting Edge
Dark Rings
Detroit Grease Shop Poem
Elegy For Teddy Holmes, Dead In A Far Land
The Falling Sky
For The Fallen
For The Poets Of Chile
Gift For A Believer; For Flavio Constantini
Hola Miguelin!
How Much Can It Hurt?
I Climbed Nine Fences This Morning
A Late Answer
Later Still
Let It Begin
My Son And I
New Season
No One Remembers
On The Birth Of Good & Evil During The Long Winter Of '28
On The Corner
On The Murder Of Lieutenant Jose Del Castillo By The Falangist ...
Renaming The Kings
Salami
Saturday Sweeping
The Secret Of Their Voices
The Space We Live
Spring In The Old World
The Survivor
They Feed They Lion
Thistles
To A Fish Head Found On The Beach Near Malaga
To My God In His Sickness
To P.l., 1916-1937; A Soldier Of The Republic
Twilight
Waiting
Waking In Alicante
The Way Down
Wednesday
You
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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A major reissue in one volume of two early books by one of our finest living poets. In an essay on his career, Edward Hirsch describes They Feed They Lion as his "most eloquent book of industrial Detroit . . . The magisterial title poem--with its fierce diction and driving rhythms--is Levine's hymn to communal rage, to acting in unison." Of The Names of the Lost: "In these poems Levine explicitly links the people of his childhood whom 'no one remembers' with his doomed heroes from the Spanish Civil War."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Knopf; 1 edition (March 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375706291
• ISBN-13: 978-0375706295
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,842,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And They Grow, July 15, 2001

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This review is from: They Feed They Lion and The Names of the Lost: Poems (Paperback)

My friend always made fun of this book's title and I would say "no man no" and he would say "but what the heck is 'They Feed They Lion' , with the black vernacular, the guy's Jewish!" but then I made him read the poem and he liked it. If you like post-cold war experimental poetry, blacks and jews, heavy industry and Detroit, then man this book is for you.