A Door in the Hive | Evening Train
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A Door in the Hive | Evening Train by Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov has been called Americas foremost contemporary woman poet and the best contemporary political poet America has. This new book contains her two most recent collections, A Door in the Hive (1989) and Evening Train (1992).
Her long dramatic poem El Salvador: Requiem and Invocation is a skilful blend of liturgical rhythms, quotations of eyewitness accounts of brutality, and a kind of folk song of the earth - chanted lists of traditional crops with prayers to the gods for blessing and fecundityThe poem partakes of so many textual models - ranging from Greek chorus to Mayan chant to 20th century media rhetoric - that what emerges is an archetypal blueprint of conflict not only between military aggressors and subjugated peoples, but also between human aggression and subjugated earth. * Harvard Book Review *
Denise Levertov (1923-97) was born in Essex, and educated at home by her father, a Russian Jewish immigrant, who became an Anglican priest, and by her Welsh mother. She sent her poems as a child to T.S. Eliot, who admired and encouraged her. In 1948, she emigrated to America, where she was acclaimed by Kenneth Rexroth in The New York Times as 'the most subtly skilful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most modest, the most moving,' and during the following decades she became 'a poet who may just be the finest writing in English today' (Kirkus Reviews). Throughout her life, she worked also as a political activist, campaigning tirelessly for civil rights and environmental causes, and against the Vietnam War, the Bomb and US-backed regimes in Latin America.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852241599 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852241594 |
| Title | A Door in the Hive | Evening Train |
| Author | Denise Levertov |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1993-04-22 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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