This Great Unknowing

This Great Unknowing PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing.

This Great Unknowing

This Great Unknowing PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Book Description
When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing.

The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov

The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811237543
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The landmark collected work of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, now in paperback.

A Poet's Revolution

A Poet's Revolution PDF Author: Donna Hollenberg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520272463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 531

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"The first full-length biography of British-born poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life a major voice in American poetry during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on exhaustive archival research of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Krolik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Korlik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both a woman and an artist, and the dynamic world she inhabited"--Front jacket flap.

Sands of the Well

Sands of the Well PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Denise Levertov was born in England in 1923. She published her first book of poems in 1946 and moved to America in 1948. SANDS OF THE WELL, first published in hardcover in 1996, shows the poet at the height of her considerable powers, as she addresses the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest coastal landscape in terms of music, memory, aging, doubt, and faith.

Making Peace

Making Peace PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216401
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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"The poems gathered here span the last three decades of Levertov's life, their subjects ranging from Vietnam to the death-squads of El Salvador to the first Gulf War." -- Back cover. -- Provided by publisher.

Tesserae

Tesserae PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213370
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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"A series of mini-memoirs bound together like a mosaic."--Publishers Weekly

Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov PDF Author: Dana Greene
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252037103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Levertov was the quintessential romantic. She wanted to live vividly, intensely, passionately, and on a grand scale. Once she acclimated herself to America, the dreamy lyric poetry of her early years gave way to the joy and wonder of ordinary life. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, her poems began to engage the issues of her times. The crystalline and luminous poetry of her last years stands as final witness to a lifetime of searching for the mystery embedded in life itself. This volume represents the first attempt to set Levertov's poetry within the framework of her often tumultuous life.

Breathing the Water

Breathing the Water PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210270
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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"Levertov's master--more than mastery, because she is one of the originators--of contemporary poetic form, informed with a fierce, generous intelligence, can be frightening." --Ursula Le Guin, Washington Post

Conversations with Denise Levertov

Conversations with Denise Levertov PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578060740
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Denise Levertov, American poet and activist, died in December 1997 at the age of 74. This book contains some twenty previously uncollected interviews conducted between the early 1960s and the middle of the 1990s. They are focused primarily on her work as a poet but also on her social and political concerns. The interviews in which Levertov discusses her craft constitute an important document on American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. She talks of her legendary friendship with her mentor William Carlos Williams and her association with the Black Mountain Poets. As she discusses her craft in great detail, she gives special attention to diction, line lengths, versification, and choice of subject matter. Students of American culture and readers of American poetry will be delighted by this collection of the personal views of one of the century's best poets.

Oblique Prayers: Poetry

Oblique Prayers: Poetry PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122189X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Over the years, Denise Levertov's poetry has moved ever more deeply into the realm of meditation, while yet speaking with the familiar voice of "the poet in the world." Oblique Prayers is arranged in four thematic sections that, taken together, work toward a mature philosophy in equal harmony with public activism and private reflection. A personal mood links the poems of “Decipherings.” In “Prisoners," the poet addresses the continuing horrors of our dark time: genocide, imperialism, impending nuclear holocaust––human degradation in brutal political guise. Levertov is an accomplished translator. With "Fourteen Poems by Jean Joubert," she introduces English-speaking readers to a contemporary French poet whose work is remarkably akin to her own. "Of God and of the Gods," the final section of the book, is informed by a transcendent lyricism that can equate in a breath "a day of spring, a needle's eye."