The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov

The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811221741
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1416

Get Book

Book Description
The landmark collected work of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, now in paperback. How splendid and impressive to have a complete, clear, and unobstructed view of Denise Levertov. Covering more than six decades and including, chronologically, every poem she ever published, Levertov’s Collected Poems presents her marvelous, groundbreaking work in full. Born in England, Denise Levertov emigrated in 1948 to the United States, where she was acclaimed by Kenneth Rexroth in The New York Times as “the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most modest, the most moving.” A staunch anti-war activist and environmentalist, and the winner of the Robert Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Lannan Prize, Denise Levertov inspired generations of writers. New Directions is proud to publish this landmark collected poems of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets.

The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov

The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811221741
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1416

Get Book

Book Description
The landmark collected work of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, now in paperback. How splendid and impressive to have a complete, clear, and unobstructed view of Denise Levertov. Covering more than six decades and including, chronologically, every poem she ever published, Levertov’s Collected Poems presents her marvelous, groundbreaking work in full. Born in England, Denise Levertov emigrated in 1948 to the United States, where she was acclaimed by Kenneth Rexroth in The New York Times as “the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most modest, the most moving.” A staunch anti-war activist and environmentalist, and the winner of the Robert Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Lannan Prize, Denise Levertov inspired generations of writers. New Directions is proud to publish this landmark collected poems of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets.

This Great Unknowing

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

Get Book

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.

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

Get Book

Book Description
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

Get Book

Book Description
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 Life Around Us

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

Get Book

Book Description
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.

Making Peace

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

Get Book

Book Description
"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.

Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967 PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222500
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Get Book

Book Description
Denise Levertov’s Poems 1960-1967 brings together all of the poetry first published in The Jacob’s Ladder (1961), O Taste and See (1964), and The Sorrow Dance (1967). Denise Levertov’s Poems 1960-1967 brings together all of the poetry first published in The Jacob’s Ladder (1961), O Taste and See (1964), and The Sorrow Dance (1967). This new compilation, beginning where her Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960 (New Directions, 1979) left off, shows both a refining of the poet’s craft and a widening of her concerns.” We are living our whole lives in a state of emergency,” she wrote in 1967. Levertov’s staunch antiwar stand is reflected here in such poems as “Life at War” and “What Were They Like?” with what Kenneth Rexroth called “the special luster of a sensibility that never sacrifices humaneness to intensity.” Side by side with her poetry of protest is that of celebration—“Song for Ishtar,” “Come into Animal Presence,” “ Luxury”—and tolerance for “The Mutes” uttering “those groans men use/passing a woman on the street…to tell her she is female” as well as for “The Ache of Marriage.” Here also are a meditation “During the Eichmann Trial,” “Olga Poems” (a sequence in memoriam), and “Say the Word,” the poet’s first published story.

Oblique Prayers: Poetry

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

Get Book

Book Description
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."

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

Get Book

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

Poems 1972-1982

Poems 1972-1982 PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Get Book

Book Description
Three of Levertov's classic volumes are now available in a single edition. Included here are: "The Freeing of the Dust; Life in the Forest; " and "Candles in Babylon".