SOURCE: "The True and Earthy Prayer': Philip Levine's Poetry," in Cry of the Human: Essays on Contemporary American Poetry, University of Illinois Press, 1975, pp. 251-65.
In the following essay, Mills traces the development of Levine's themes from On the Edge to Red Dust and They Feed They Lion.
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