SP2433 Philip Levine's Detroit: "The Exact Center of the Modern World"

SP2433 Philip Levine's Detroit: "The Exact Center of the Modern World"

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29995 W 12 Mile Rd Farmington Hills, MI 48334 United States

3rd Floor

5/2/2024 (one day)

1:00 PM-2:30 PM EDT on Th

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Although Philip Levine (1928-2015) left Detroit in 1953, his home city never left his poems. Detroit is, for good or ill, “the exact center of the modern world,” where human dignity arises amid industrial oppression. Levine celebrates workers: their anger, fatigue, humor, and solidarity. In the night, on their streets, in their gardens, these Detroiters may find beauty in their city: a glimmer on the river, the emergence of growing things, moonlight on the snow. Philip Levine received the Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Awards. He was appointed US Poet Laureate in 2011.

Rashid, Frank D

A lifelong Detroiter, Frank Rashid is Professor Emeritus of English and a founding member of the Institute for Detroit Studies at Marygrove College (now the Marygrove Conservancy). He edits the online Literary Map of Detroit and has published on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Robert Hayden, and Lawrence Joseph, and on Detroit literature, culture, and politics. He is co-editor of “Tiger Stadium: Essays and Memories of Detroit’s Historic Ballpark.”