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Philip Dane Levin 1931-2009. Photo courtesy of Michael Joyce.
Philip Dane Levin
1931–2009
One of the most influential former editors of Appalachia died on February 3, 2009. Philip Dane Levin was a lawyer, poet, prose writer, and adventurer who lived in Massachusetts and Maine. He served on the Appalachia committee from 1970 through 1988 and was councillor of publications. His Appalachia writings date to 1964 and include essays, stories, reviews, and poems inspired by the natural scene. He was named the journal’s first poetry editor in 1977. He also was an accomplished prose writer, contributing essays on wilderness ethics, peakbagging, overdevelopment of the backcountry, nuclear energy, equal access to wildlands by minorities, and other environmental themes.
This web page has allowed room to reprint some of his prolific output of writings.
Christine Woodside
Editor-in-Chief, Appalachia
November 2009
Selected Bibliography
Appalachia Editorial Posts
Selected Work
Selected Bibliography, articles and poems by Phil Levin that appared in Appalachia
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Winter 1986-87 (December 1986), Course Corrections: Appalachia’s One Hundred and Tenth Birthday (essay)
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Summer 1986, Footbridge
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Winter 1985-86, The Rescue (in Skyline Sketches, probably a fictional piece)
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Summer 1985 (June 1985), Ascent
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Winter 1984-85 (December 1984), No work by Phil, but he published the first piece of work by a future Appalachia editor, Sandy Stott, a poem entitled, Seams.
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Winter 1983-84 (published in December 1983), The Case for Unmapped Areas: A Conceptual Limit to Wilderness? (essay), and Lupercal
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June 1983, Pas de Deux
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December 1982, The Quarry
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June 1981, Anne Towards Her Sixteenth Birthday
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December 1980, Lunch with Eleanor in the Little Col between Huguenot Head and Champlain
Reprinted here in its entirety:
in cold mountain mists
whitethroat answers hermit thrush
separations fade
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December 1979, Ice Oracles
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June 1979, No work by Phil, but as poetry editor he published the first of the poems by Helen Howe, who would later become poetry editor. Helen’s son, the capable and thoughtful Parkman Howe, succeeded her as poetry editor and continues in that post.
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December 1978, Inward to Wilderness: Part IV: The Parameters of Choice (essay)
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June 1978, Inward to Wilderness: Part III: An Ethical Wilderness (essay)
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June 1977, The Question
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December 1976, Inward to Wilderness: Part II: Escapist Management (essay)
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December 1975, Inward to Wilderness: Part I: burch, Nutter and the Theory of Relativity (essay), and Solo (poem)
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December 1974, Climber
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June 1973, Six Haiku, and Towards a Recreated Wilderness: Notes on Abolishing the Four Thousand Footer Clubs
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December 1972, Two Poems
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June 1972, Seasons
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December 1971, White Mountain Haiku II
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December 1970, For Future Generations
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December 1969, White Mountain Haiku
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June 1969, Mountaineering in Mexico
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June 1966, The Lesser Hills
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December 1964, Free Fall on the Dent Blanche
Phil Levin’s editorial posts for Appalachia
Dates are those the journals were published. His actual work would have been up to six months before each date.
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Member of Appalachia Committee
December 1970-June 1988
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Editor and Chairman of the Appalachia Committee
June 1973, December 1973, June 1974, December 1974
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Poetry Editor
June 1977-June 1988
Selected Work
Inward to Wilderness Essay Series
Footbridge
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