# The Simple Truth

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- Book: [The Simple Truth](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-levine/the-simple-truth) ([The Simple Truth.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-levine/the-simple-truth.md))
- Authors: [Philip Levine](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-levine)
- Publisher: knopf
- ISBN: 978-06-7976-584-4
- Pages: 80
- Published: 1996-09-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 Written in a voice that moves between elegy and prayer, The Simple Truth contains thirty-three poems whose aim is to weave a complex tapestry of myth, history...