What Is Life Lune ..." A version by Shawn Mullins was released as a single in 1999 and plays over the closing credits of the Adam Sandler movie "Big Daddy" (1999). Following Harrison's death, Japanese band the Collectors contributed a recording of "What Is Life" to the "Gentle Guitar Dreams" tribute album, released in May 2002. Classical guitarist Joseph Breznikar recorded a version of the song for his 2003 tribute album "George Harrison Remembered: A Touch of Class". In November 2004, Neal Morse released his recording of "What Is Life" on the special-edition version of his album "One". Les Fradkin included a cover
What Work Is sometimes been criticized for leaning too hard on his blue-collar "bona fides". The critic Adam Kirsch, writing in "The Times Book Review" in 1999, noted, accurately enough, that “in his autobiographical essays he goes out of his way to tell us that he is essentially a peasant.” David Baker, writing about "What Work Is" (1991) in the "Kenyon Review", said Levine has “one of our most resonant voices of social conviction and witness, and he speaks with a powerful clarity…What Work Is may be one of the most important books of poetry of our time. Poem after poem confronts the