This Great Unknowing: Last Poems

This Great Unknowing: Last Poems PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223191
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. Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work—when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers.

This Great Unknowing: Last Poems

This Great Unknowing: Last Poems PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223191
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. Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work—when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers.

The Life Around Us

The Life Around Us PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213523
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Gathered here in one handy volume are 62 poems about nature and the ecology. But, as the author notes in her preface, these are not all praise-poems"celebration and fear of loss are necessarily conjoined". This compact gift-book will have special appeal to those who love Mother Earth.

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.

Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960

Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960 PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207188
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Now available. Here are the early poems which first brought Denise Levertov's work to prominence -- from early uncollected poems, selections from The Double Image (London, 1946), and her three books Here and Now (1957), Overland to the Islands (1958) and With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1960), which established her as one of the more lyrical and most influential poets of the New American poetry.

The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes

The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222403
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Conceived as a convenience to those readers concerned with doubt and faith, Denise Levertov's 34 selected poems originally were published in seven separate volumes. The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way.

The Freeing of the Dust

The Freeing of the Dust PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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In the sixty poems that comprise The Freeing of the Dust, Denise Levertov continued to explore the personal and public themes that threaded through her work during the disastrous American involvement in Indochina. Relations with family and close friends are depicted with unique poignancy as she pits the at times terrifying concrete image against her vision of the ideal. Here we have poems that speak out of the direct tragedy of war, the result of Ms. Levertov's visit to North Vietnam in the fall of 1972, while others reflect the anguish and the exultation of what she has called the 'inner/outer experience in America during the '60's and the beginning of the '70's.

Light Up the Cave

Light Up the Cave PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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This volume of fiction and essays includes three short stories, articles on the craft of poetry focusing on the musical function of the line, and a discussion of the relation of poets to politics.

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."

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

A Door in the Hive

A Door in the Hive PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Poems address such topics as paintings, music, landscapes, and the terror in El Salvador.