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Philip Levine

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

Advice, Meet, People, See, Who Cares, Worthy
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Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

Years, Gone, Left, Back, Poem

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

Detroit, Ironic, Left, Twenties, Worker

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

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My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

Father, Grew, Grew Up, Strong

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

Change, Dramatic, Imagine, Seventies
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