University of Detroit Mercy

University of Detroit Mercy at Detroit; coeducational; Jesuit; est. 1877 as a college, inc. 1881, became a university 1911. The present school was formed with the 1990 merger of the Univ. of Detroit and Mercy College (1941).

Levine, Philip (1928–), Detroit‐born poet, long resident in California as a professor at the state university campus, Fresno (1958– ), whose volumes of verse, including On the Edge (1963), Not This Pig (1968), 5 Detroits (1970), Pili's Wall (1971), Red Dust (1971), They Feed, They Lion (1972), 1933 (1974), The Names of the Lost (1976), Seven Years from Somewhere (1979), Ashes (1979), One for the Rose (1981), Sweet Will (1985), A Walk with Tom Jefferson (1988), What Work Is (1991), and Pulitzer Prize winner Simple Truth (1995), show an antipathy to the stylish wealthy class and a sympathy for the oppressed working class of the U.S. Recent collections are The Mercy (1999) and Breath (2004). Don't Ask (1981) contains interviews with Levine. A collection of autobiographical essays, The Bread of Time: Toward An Autobiography (1994), has an account of his becoming a poet, especially as a student of John Berryman at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.