SOURCE: "Stanzas in a Life," in New York Times Book Review, February 20, 1994, p. 14.
In the following review, Gioia considers The Bread of Time, Levine's collection of autobiographical essays. Though Gioia praises certain facets of the work, he also criticizes it for certain shortcomings both as an autobiography and as a book of essays.
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