Philip Levine, U.S. Poet Laureate
Levine was named as poet laureate for the US and in an article in the NYT an excerpt from one of his poems reveals why: Can you taste what I’m saying? It is onions or potatoes, a pinch of simple salt, the wealth of melting butter, it is obvious, it stays in the back of your throat like a truth you never uttered because the time was always wrong … I love the silence he…