Selected Poems of Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov

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In every time there are just a few poets whose work–for its sheer lyric conscience–carries poetry safely into the future. Denise Levertov, as this book shows, is one of them.

— Eavan Boland

Selected Poems of Denise Levertov

Poetryby Denise Levertov

Drawing on six decades of her writing life, this Selected Poems offers a chronological overview of Denise Levertov’s great body of work. Here at last is a clear, unobstructed view of her groundbreaking 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.”

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Paperback(published Sep, 01 2002)

ISBN
9780811215541
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14.95
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Page Count
240

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9780811215206
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5x8
Page Count
240

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9780811222396
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Page Count
240
Portrait of Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov

Poet and political activist

In every time there are just a few poets whose work–for its sheer lyric conscience–carries poetry safely into the future. Denise Levertov, as this book shows, is one of them.

— Eavan Boland

Levertov’s mastery–more than mastery because she is one of the originators–of contemporary poetic form, informed with a fierce, generous intelligence, can be frightening.

— Ursula K. LeGuin

Denise Levertov has evolved a style of her own, clear, sparse, immediate and vibrant with a very special sensibility and completely feminine insight. She is the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most modest, the most moving.

— Kenneth Rexroth, The New York Times Book Review