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Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well. He served on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets from 2000 to 2006,〔 and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012.〔() Poetry Foundation website February 15, 2015〕 ==Biography== Philip Levine grew up in industrial Detroit, the second of three sons and the first of identical twins of Jewish immigrant parents. His father, Harry Levine, owned a used auto parts business, his mother, Esther Priscol (Prisckulnick) Levine, was a bookseller.〔 When Levine was five years old, his father died.〔 While growing up, he faced the anti-Semitism embodied by Father Coughlin, the pro-Nazi radio priest. Levine started to work in car manufacturing plants at the age of 14. Detroit Central High School graduated him in 1946 and he went to college at Wayne University (now Wayne State University) in Detroit, where he began to write poetry, encouraged by his mother, to whom he dedicated the book of poems, ''The Mercy''. Levine earned his A.B. in 1950 and went to work for Chevrolet and Cadillac in what he called "stupid jobs".〔 He married his first wife, Patty Kanterman, in 1951. The marriage lasted until 1953. In 1953 he attended the University of Iowa without registering, studying with, among others, poets Robert Lowell and John Berryman, the latter of whom Levine called his "one great mentor".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Philip Levine )〕 In 1954 he earned a mail-order masters degree with a thesis on John Keats' "Ode to Indolence", and married actress Frances J. Artley.〔 He returned to the University of Iowa teaching technical writing, completing his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1957.〔 The same year, he was awarded the Jones Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University. In 1958 he joined the English department at California State University in Fresno, where he taught until his retirement in 1992. He also taught at many other universities, among them New York University as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, at Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Tufts and the University of California at Berkeley. Levine and his wife had made their homes in Fresno and Brooklyn. He died of pancreatic cancer on February 14, 2015, aged 87.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Philip Levine, U.S. Poet Laureate Who Won Pulitzer, Dies At 87 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Philip Levine (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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