The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov

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Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published: 2023-11-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780811237543

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

This Great Unknowing

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Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9780811214582

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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.

Selected Poems

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Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2003-09-17

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 081122239X

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Denise Levertov's Selected Poems delivers in a single accessible volume "one of the essential poets of our time" (Poetry Flash). Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry—the work of a poet who, as Kenneth Rexroth put it, "more than anyone, led the redirection of American poetry...to the mainstream of world literature." Described by Publishers Weekly as "at once as intimate as Creeley and as visionary as Duncan," Levertov was lauded as "one of the indispensable poets of our language, one of those few writers to whom it is necessary to pay attention" by The Malahat Review. No poet is more overdue for a single accessible volume; no career could be better to have within easy reach.

A Poet's Revolution

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Author: Donna Hollenberg

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 0520272463

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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

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Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780811213615

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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.

Breathing the Water

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Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780811210270

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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

Denise Levertov

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Author: Dana Greene

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2012-09-14

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0252037103

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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.

Making Peace

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Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780811216401

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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.

Oblique Prayers: Poetry

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Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1984-10-17

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 081122189X

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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."

Light Up the Cave

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Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780811208130

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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.