Yesterday, British poet Raymond Antrobus asked me if I had a favorite poem I had first read in The New Yorker. I remembered reading "28" by Philip Levine back in the 1980s. I dug the poem up in the magazine's archives: it was published in the issue of 1 September 1986. I was 22 at the time, and the poem floored me with the 56-year-old poet recalling (and perhaps fictionalizing) his experiences half his life ago: "At 28 I was still faithless." The poem appeared in Levine’s “A Walk with Tom Jefferson” in 1988. I bought the book in Boulder, Colorado, on 17 August 1988, which I noted in the book. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 14 June 2024)
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