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	Advanced Search > ABOUT THE AUTHOR Philip Levine Levine writes gritty, fiercely unpretentious free verse about American manliness, physical labor, simple pleasures and profound grief, often set in working-class Detroit (where Levine grew up) or in central California (where he now resides)... More > FURTHER READING Back to School Poems All the World's a Stage by William Shakespeare Apples by Grace Schulman Art Class by James Galvin Being Jewish in a Small Town by Lyn Lifshin Evening Walk as the School Year Starts by Sydney Lea First Gestures by Julia Spicher Kasdorf From "One A.M." by David Young In Michael Robins’s class minus one by Bob Hicok Mary's Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale Niggerlips by Martín Espada Panty Raid by Terri Ford Pledge by Elizabeth Powell Sentimental Education by Mary Ruefle Sick by Shel Silverstein The Hand by Mary Ruefle The Junior High School Band Concert by David Wagoner The Shout by Simon Armitage The Testing-Tree by Stanley Kunitz Theme for English B by Langston Hughes We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks Why Latin Should Still Be Taught in High School by Christopher Bursk More Audio Clips All Their Stanzas Look Alike by Thomas Sayers Ellis Father's Day by James Tate Gold by Donald Hall Still by A. R. Ammons The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace Stevens The Junior High School Band Concert by David Wagoner The Portrait by Stanley Kunitz The Red Poppy by Louise Glück The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Related Prose Ekphrasis: Poetry Confronting Art Other Ekprastic Poems Purgatorio, Canto X by Dante Alighieri The Iliad, Book XVIII, ["The Shield of Achilles"] by Homer Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke Die Muhle Brennt--Richard by Richard Matthews Joseph Cornell, with Box by Michael Dumanis Landscape With The Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams Museum Guard by David Hernandez Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats On Seeing the Elgin Marbles by John Keats On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery by Percy Bysshe Shelley Photograph of People Dancing in France by Leslie Adrienne Miller Seeing All the Vermeers by Alfred Corn Stealing The Scream by Monica Youn The Family Photograph by Vona Groarke The Mad Potter by John Hollander The Painting by John Balaban The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers by Andrew Marvell The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles by John Keats War Photograph by Kate Daniels Why knowing is (& Matisse's Woman with a Hat) by Martha Ronk Adopt a Poet | Add to Notebook | E-mail to Friend | Print Messieur Degas Teaches Art and Science at Durfy Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 Buy the CD   by Philip Levine   Audio Clip October 08, 1991 French Institue Alliance Fran‡aise From the Academy Audio Archive
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