What Work Is

Name: What Work Is
Author: Philip Levine

by Philip Levine

It was also Levine's "What Work Is," Yusef Komunyakaa's "Magic City" and Seamus Heaney's "North" that first inspired me to write poems that could tell the stories I needed to tell.

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Natasha Trethewey

"It was also Levine's "What Work Is," Yusef Komunyakaa's "Magic City" and Seamus Heaney's "North" that first inspired me to write poems that could tell the stories I needed to tell."

By the Book: Natasha Trethewey · nytimes.com