Philip Levine, former US poet laureate and Pulitzer winner, dies at 87

• Poet died on Saturday, a month after being diagnosed with cancer
• Won Pulitzer Prize in 1995, for The Simple Truth

Philip Levine, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose intimate portraits of blue-collar life were grounded in personal experience and political conscience, died on Saturday. HE was 87.

Levine, the US poet laureate in 2011 and 2012, died at his home in Fresno, California, of pancreatic and liver cancer, his wife said on Sunday.

This is about waiting,

shifting from one foot to another.