Oblique Prayers

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Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780811209090

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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

Oblique Prayers PDF

Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780906427897

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Denise Levertov's poetry has moved ever more deeply into the realm of meditation. Oblique Prayers - published with her first UK Selected Poems - shows her poetry working towards a mature philosophy in harmony with public activism and private reflection. The book also includes her translations of Jean Joubert.

Oblique Prayers: Poetry

Oblique Prayers: Poetry PDF

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."

This Great Unknowing

This Great Unknowing PDF

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.

Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960

Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960 PDF

Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780811207188

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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.

Denise Levertov

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Author: Audrey T. Rodgers

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780838634943

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Through careful analysis of Levertov's social verse, she demonstrates that there is a consistency and pattern in what the artist herself has termed the "poems of engagement." Denise Levertov began her career in England as a lyric poet in the Romantic mode, but even then was touched by the reductive nature of war, revealed in her first published poem, "Listening to Distant Guns." During the mid-1960s Levertov's social conscience, notably her strong antiwar sentiment, was reawakened by the Vietnam War. This reawakening resulted in several volumes of poetry that mirrored her concerns with the war (and political activism at home) and her perplexity at the nature of human beings - often great and compassionate, but at times cruel and insensitive. There exists a common thread in Levertov's pilgrimage from her beginning as a lyric poet to her status as an artist definitively in the world: she has always responded to everything within the compass of her experience.

Poetry and Prayer

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Author: Francesca Bugliani Knox

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1317079396

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Interdisciplinary and ecumenical in scope, Poetry and Prayer offers theoretical discussion on the profound connection between poetic inspiration and prayer as well as reflection on the work of individual writers and the traditions within which they stand. An international range of established and new scholars in literary studies and theology offer unique contributions to the neglected study of poetry in relation to prayer. Part I addresses the relationship of prayer and poetry. Parts II and III consider these and related ideas from the point of view of their implementation in a range of different authors and traditions, offering case studies from, for example, the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare and Herbert, as well as twentieth-century poets such as Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, W.H. Auden and R.S. Thomas.

A Door in the Hive

A Door in the Hive PDF

Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780811211192

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