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Philip Levine on America’s Workers
December 27, 2013
Poet Philip Levine joins Bill to discuss why Americans have lost sight of who really keeps
the country afloat – the hardworking men and women who toil, unsung and
unknown, in our nation’s fields and factories.
During the years
he himself spent in the grit, noise and heat of the assembly lines of
Detroit auto plants, Levine discovered that his gift for verse could
provide “a voice for the voiceless.” In his conversation with Bill,
Levine reads from his collection of poetry and reflects on the
personalities that inspired him, including women he met while working in
a plumbing parts factory. “The work was hard and the women would get
very tired and you couldn’t help but feel, ‘Oh my God, this is so tough;
this is so dehumanizing,” Levine tells Moyers.
Philip Levine is
the author of twenty collections of poems and books of translations and
essays. He is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and two National Book
Awards and recently served as the nation’s poet laureate at the Library
of Congress.
http://billmoyers.com/segment/philip-levine-on-americas-workers/
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