Unselected Poems Author:Philip Levine Poetry. This new edition of UNSELECTED POEMS--a consistent SPD bestseller since its original publication--gathers the poems left out of SELECTED POEMS and NEW SELECTED POEMS. I really think he is extraordinary, a visionary of our dense, troubled, mysterious times. The grittiest and most brutal of his poems I would not hesitate to call ineffable-... more »-Joyce Carol Oates.« less