Q: Rain was always a favorite theme?
Levine: Rain was my first, and I guess, a constant theme. But things like wind in the winter, the trees, and my sense of relationship with them. You could actually see the stars, we were on the outskirts of Detroit, there were no factories around. So you could see the stars and, oh the world is, you know, a cosmos, is immense.

The Paris Review, The Art of Poetry No. 39, Issue 107, Summer 1988