“What Work Is” is a favorite poem of mine. It’s by Philip Levine and it appears in the book of the same name, published by Knopf in 1991, which won the National Book Award. http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/levine/what_work_is.php I often teach it and read it aloud to students. Like a lot of Levine’s work, it is conversational and […]
