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The Last Shift by Philip LevineNow in paperbackthe final collection of new poems from one of our finest and most beloved poets. The poems in this wonderful collection touch all of the events and places that meant the most to Philip Levine. There are lyrical poems about his family and childhood, the magic of nighttime and the power of dreaming; tough poems about the heavy shift work at Detroits auto plants, the Nazis, and bosses of all kinds; telling poems about his heroesjazz

to explore how types of captivity replicate themselves across time and space

arrange them in order—red

Intellectuals and hippies

tackling contemporary politics in a more direct

was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934

/ just watch me / catch this rubber bullet between my teeth

"—Judith Vollmer

his words continue to reverberate

Moving spontaneously between lyric

In most of his poems

Joe Pan is the author of two poetry collections

the forgotten