Selected Poems by Denise Levertov
'Denise Levertov is America's foremost contemporary woman poet' (Library Journal). This Selected Poems, published in 1986, covered all Denise Levertov's collections up to Candles in Babylon (1982), and was her first retrospective edition to be published in the UK. Her then latest collection, Oblique Prayers, was published by Bloodaxe at the time. The selection was made by Bloodaxe Books in consultation with Denise Levertov, with helpful suggestions provided by Linda Anderson and Cynthia Fuller. Some minor revisions to a small number of poems were made by the author for this edition. It was superseded by New Selected Poems, a different selection, edited by Paul A. Lacey, posthumously published in 2003.
Denise Levertov has evolved a style of her own, clear, spare, immediate and vibrant with a very special sensibility and completely feminine insightShe is the most subtly skilful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most modest, the most moving. * New York Times *
She creates, with great economy, an aura in which something is waiting to shine forth. And it always does... There is a sense in which her poems do not move through time. This is what creates the hush in which these poems are enveloped - a hush through which we hear and see what is at the heart of the living instant. -- Robert Pack * Saturday Review *
She creates, with great economy, an aura in which something is waiting to shine forth. And it always does... There is a sense in which her poems do not move through time. This is what creates the hush in which these poems are enveloped - a hush through which we hear and see what is at the heart of the living instant. -- Robert Pack * Saturday 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 | 9780906427859 |
| ISBN 10 | 0906427851 |
| Title | Selected Poems |
| Author | Denise Levertov |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1986-09-25 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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