{"id":1367,"date":"2013-09-16T19:57:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/import-placeholder-for-3\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:48:31","slug":"a-poet-drives-a-truck","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/a-poet-drives-a-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poet Drives a Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-top: 20px;padding-bottom: 25px\"><a style=\"margin-top: 30px;margin-bottom: 30px;padding: 10px 15px 10px 20px;background-color: white;text-align: center;text-decoration: none;border: 3px double #377bb5;letter-spacing: 4px\" href=\"http:\/\/ideaexchange.uakron.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1181&amp;context=uapress_publications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ A SAMPLE<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Lowell A. Levant had the twin vocations of poet and truck driver. He rose to prominence in Berkeley in the \u201860\u2019s as a member of the Artists, Musicians, Poets, and Sympathizers Local of the I.W.W., whose work was collected in Poems Read in the Spirit of Peace and Gladness. Readers will notice four main qualities of his poems. First, as observed by his mentor, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gary Snyder, there is \u201c\u2026 the complex depth of his writing about work, machinery, trucks, equipment, repair, maintenance&#8211;all in a deceptively slightly befuddled voice that masks the surprising competence of what&#8217;s being actually done.\u201d Second, there is attunement with nature, characteristic of \u201cDeep Ecology\u201d poetry.\u00a0 Third, there is music, which he also created when he played a Jew\u2019s harp, sang, or strummed his guitar.\u00a0 Finally, Lowell\u2019s poetry often took the form of the unfiltered, unfettered, free-associative declarations of the Beat Poets of his time, particularly those of Allen Ginsberg, whom Lowell admired.<\/p>\n<h3>About the author<\/h3>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<h4>Lowell A. Levant<\/h4>\n<p>Lowell A. Levant was born in St. Paul, MN. He graduated from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles and attended the University of California, Berkeley.\u00a0 Lowell was a participant in the Free Speech Movement and a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War who did alternate service. He had the twin vocations of poet and truck driver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>Poems by and about Lowell A. Levant<\/h3>\n<h4>by Lowell A. Levant<\/h4>\n<p>Pages: 147<\/p>\n<p>Size: 6 x 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3519,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[7314],"product_tag":[97351,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-1367","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_tag-memoir","8":"product_tag-poetry","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}