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Philip Levine. Pulitzer winner.

Wayne Blair 1951 (London)

Rhymed
He write of Detroit
And later California shores
Encounters, Jew jabs
Stimulants and bores.


The grinding factory
Old stores torn down.
Coloured districts
Songs Motown.


Auto assembly beat
Smoke never clears.
Long way to Dearborn.
Class conscious smears.


“Arrival and Departure.”
Exceptional release.
Stanzas that provoke;
bring peace.


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Philip Levine (b. January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan. d. February 14, 2015, Fresno, California) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit.
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Scheme ABXB XCXC XDXD EFXF EGGX A
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 630
Words 112
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
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Wayne Blair

Born in London. Graduated law 1976 Practised eleven years, Married Hilary 1974 Two kids Lauren 1980 And Jordan 1987. Business failed 1987. Moved not knowing whither. Happy hills of Waterloo Region. Mennonite Country. Thirty four years in Industry. No complaints. Poet, photographer, nature hiker. Harmonica busker. http://puffnchord7.blogspot.com/ more…

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