{"product_id":"the-simple-truth-isbn-9780679765844","title":"The Simple Truth","description":"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1995\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Written\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein a voice that moves between elegy and prayer, \u003ci\u003eThe Simple Truth \u003c\/i\u003econtains 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.“I am a longtime admirer of Philip Levine’s poetry, but until now I thought he could never surpass \u003ci\u003eThe Names of the Lost, \u003c\/i\u003ea book I love deeply. But \u003ci\u003eThe Simple Truth \u003c\/i\u003edeserves its title—I wonder if \u003ci\u003eany \u003c\/i\u003eAmerican poet since Walt Whitman himself has written elegies this consistently magnificent. The controlled pathos of every poem in the volume is immense, and gives me a new sense of Levine.”\u003cbr\u003e —Harold BloomPhilip Levine was born in 1928 in Detroit and was formally educated there, in the public schools and at Wayne University (now Wayne State University). After a succession of industrial jobs, he left the city for good and lived in various parts of the country before settling in Fresno, California, where he taught at the state university until his retirement. For twelve autumns he served as poet in residence at New York University. He has received many awards for his books of poems, including the National Book Award in 1991 for \u003ci\u003eWhat Work Is\u003c\/i\u003e and the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for \u003ci\u003eThe Simple Truth. \u003c\/i\u003eIn 2011 he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United   States. He divides his time between Fresno, California, and Brooklyn, New   York.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304572571877,"sku":"NP9780679765844","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679765844.jpg?v=1767741522","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-simple-truth-isbn-9780679765844","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}