A collection of poems by the author who is the recipient of a 1994 Whiting Writers' Award and also the author of Turtle, Swan and Bethlehem in Broad Daylight.
A collection of poems by the author who is the recipient of a 1994 Whiting Writers' Award and also the author of Turtle, Swan and Bethlehem in Broad D...
Augustinus (354430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a rhetorician, plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts in search of truth, joining for a time the Manichaean society. He became a teacher of grammar at Tagaste, and lived much under the influence of his mother and his friend Alypius. About 383 he went to Rome and soon after to Milan as a teacher of rhetoric, being now attracted by the philosophy of the Sceptics and of the Neo-Platonists. His studies of Paul's letters with...
Augustinus (354430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 Writtenin a voice that moves between elegy and prayer, The Simple Truth contains thirty-three poems whose aim is to weave a complex tapestry of myth, history (both public and private), family, memory, and invention in a search for truths so basic and universal they often escape us all.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 Writtenin a voice that moves between elegy and prayer, The Simple Truth contains thirty-three...
A compelling second collection of poetry. "Not This Pigs shows Levine] to be a poet of growing power and strangeness. In most of his poems Levine sketches in an apparently concrete experience, but he blurs the edges so that the reader is propelled into the realms of mystery."-Judson Jerome, Saturday Review ."one of the best books of poetry to come out of the sixties.his perspective is usually so healthy and so complete that I have come back to the poems again and again."-James McMichael, The Southern Review
A compelling second collection of poetry. "Not This Pigs shows Levine] to be a poet of growing power and strangeness. In most of his poems Levine ske...