What Work Is is a collection of poetry by Philip Levine that explores subjects characteristic of his work, including physical labor, class identity, family relationships, and personal loss. Much of the book is shaped by concerns for blue collar workers as well as national political events. The focus on work and the working class has led to the collection being read through the lens of Marxist literary criticism.
What Work Is was first published in 1991 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in New York.[1]
This poetry collection won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1991.[2][3]
"I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my work played in it—I could embrace it with some degree of joy, an element conspicuously missing from my life."
Philip Levine[4]
^Marks, Marjorie (September 8, 1991), "Finalists for the 1990-1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes", Los Angeles Times, p. 10, retrieved December 4, 2011
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Fein, Esther B. (November 22, 1991), "Book Awards for Poetry, 'Mating' and 'Freedom'", The New York Times, retrieved December 4, 2011
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"National Book Awards – 1991". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
^Levine, Philip (1965), "Philip Levine", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 127 (2), Academy of American Poets: 879, Bibcode:1965NYASA.127..879S, doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1965.tb49450.x, S2CID 86010838, retrieved November 22, 2011
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