Philip Levine is a member of the remarkable generation of American poets born in the 1920s, which began with Hayden Carruth, Marie Ponsot, and Richard Wilbur and includes James Merrill, Carolyn Kizer, W. S. Merwin, James Wright, Galway Kinnell, and Adrienne Rich. These poets are perhaps all the more notable in that each of their voices is unmistakable and unique