Name: The Simple Truth
ISBN: 9780679765844

Philip Levine

Offers thirty-three poems that interweave a complex web of myth, public and private history, family, memory, and invention as they explore the timeless truths of human existence

Poems

The Simple Truth

noha

3.5 

I honestly enjoyed this collection. Levine's writing is very simple. You can feel the calmness in each line, idk if you get what i mean! These poems are very quiet 'n lovely.


“Some things
you know all your life. They are so simple and true
they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme,
they must be laid on the table beside the salt shaker-”


I'm definitely looking forward to read more of his work.

The Simple Truth Poems