“Instead I was born in the wrong year and in the wrong place, and I made my way so slowly and badly that I remember every single turn, and each one smells like an overblown rose, yellow, American, beautiful, and true.”
Philip Levine’s plaque on the Iowa Ave Literary Walk reads “Instead I was born in the wrong year and in the wrong place, and I made my way so slowly and badly that I remember every single turn, and each one smells like an overblown rose, yellow, American, beautiful, and true.”
Levine, Philip. New Selected Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
