Philip Levine in conversation with Naomi Jaffa at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in November 2009. In this excerpt from their discussion, Levine talks about being taught first by Robert Lowell and then by John Berryman at the University of Iowa, where his classmates included Donald Justice, W.D. Snodgrass and Henri Coulette. Levine says a lot more about having Berryman and Yvor Winters as mentors in his memoir THE BREAD OF TIME (1994/2002). His poetry is published in Britain by Bloodaxe Books in STRANGER TO NOTHING: SELECTED POEMS:
http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852247371
This discussion was organised by the Poetry Trust as part of the 2009 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival:
http://www.thepoetrytrust.org
Thank you for posting this, hemu1en.
writersblock26 3 months ago
phil!
BernsteinCharles 1 year ago
Phil looks and sounds fantastic. I am not exaggerating when I say he speaks with as much vim & vigor as he did in 1989, when he was my teacher at Fresno State.
Thank you for this.
erp65 2 years ago