SOURCE: "Where the Angels Come Toward Us: The Poetry of Philip Levine," in Antioch Review, Vol. 44, No. 2, Spring, 1986, pp. 176-91.
In the following essay, St. John considers Levine's career and asserts that his poetry "has become both the pulse and conscience of American poetry."
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