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Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

By: Denise Levertov

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Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

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Denise Levertov’s Poems 1960-1967 brings together all of the poetry first published in The Jacob’s Ladder (1961), O Taste and See (1964), and The Sorrow Dance (1967). Denise Levertov’s Poems 1960-1967 brings together all of the poetry first published in The Jacob’s Ladder (1961), O Taste and See (1964), and The Sorrow Dance (1967). This new compilation, beginning where her Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960 (New Directions, 1979) left off, shows both a refining of the poet’s craft and a widening of her concerns.” We are living our whole lives in a state of emergency,” she wrote in 1967. Levertov’s staunch antiwar stand is reflected here in such poems as “Life at War” and “What Were They Like?” with what Kenneth Rexroth called “the special luster of a sensibility that never sacrifices humaneness to intensity.” Side by side with her poetry of protest is that of celebration—“Song for Ishtar,” “Come into Animal Presence,” “ Luxury”—and tolerance for “The Mutes” uttering “those groans men use/passing a woman on the street…to tell her she is female” as well as for “The Ache of Marriage.” Here also are a meditation “During the Eichmann Trial,” “Olga Poems” (a sequence in memoriam), and “Say the Word,” the poet’s first published story.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811222500

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9780811222501

The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov

By: Denise Levertov

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The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov

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The landmark collected work of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, now in paperback. How splendid and impressive to have a complete, clear, and unobstructed view of Denise Levertov. Covering more than six decades and including, chronologically, every poem she ever published, Levertov’s Collected Poems presents her marvelous, groundbreaking work in full. Born in England, Denise Levertov emigrated in 1948 to the United States, where she was acclaimed by Kenneth Rexroth in The New York Times as “the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most modest, the most moving.” A staunch anti-war activist and environmentalist, and the winner of the Robert Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Lannan Prize, Denise Levertov inspired generations of writers. New Directions is proud to publish this landmark collected poems of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets.

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0811221741

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Sands of the Well

By: Denise Levertov

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Sands of the Well

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For the first time in paperback-Levertov's recent poetry, showing her at the height of her literary powers. 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.

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0811221881

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9780811221887

Selected Poems

By: Denise Levertov

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Selected Poems

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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.

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New Directions Publishing

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081122239X

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9780811222396

Conversations with Denise Levertov

By: Denise Levertov

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Conversations with Denise Levertov

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Denise Levertov, American poet and activist, died in December 1997 at the age of 74. This book contains some twenty previously uncollected interviews conducted between the early 1960s and the middle of the 1990s. They are focused primarily on her work as a poet but also on her social and political concerns. The interviews in which Levertov discusses her craft constitute an important document on American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. She talks of her legendary friendship with her mentor William Carlos Williams and her association with the Black Mountain Poets. As she discusses her craft in great detail, she gives special attention to diction, line lengths, versification, and choice of subject matter. Students of American culture and readers of American poetry will be delighted by this collection of the personal views of one of the century's best poets.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578060745

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Breathing the Water

By: Denise Levertov

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Breathing the Water

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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

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0811210278

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9780811210270

Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960

By: Denise Levertov

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Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960

By: Denise Levertov

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.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811207188

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The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams

By: Denise Levertov,William Carlos Williams

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The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams

By: Denise Levertov,William Carlos Williams

A celebration of the literary correspondence of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams - at once a portrait of two geniuses, the testimony of their remarkable friendship, and a seedbed of ideas about American poetry. This volume contains 33 letters from Levertov and 31 from Williams.

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0811213927

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9780811213929

Conversations with Denise Levertov

By: Denise Levertov

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1578060737

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Poems 1972-1982

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Poems 1972-1982

By: Denise Levertov

Three of Levertov's classic volumes are now available in a single edition. Included here are: "The Freeing of the Dust; Life in the Forest; " and "Candles in Babylon".

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0811214699

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The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams

By: Denise Levertov,William Carlos Williams

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Oblique Prayers: Poetry

By: Denise Levertov

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Oblique Prayers: Poetry

By: Denise Levertov

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.

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081122189X

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A Door in the Hive

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A Door in the Hive

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

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0811211193

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9780811211192

New & Selected Essays

By: Denise Levertov

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New & Selected Essays

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Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true Poet: to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a 'spendor of that Grace to humanity.'" --World Literature Today

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0811212181

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The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov

By: Denise Levertov

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Evening Train

By: Denise Levertov

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Evening Train

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Evening Train, Denise Levertov's twenty-first collection, carries the extended pilgrimage of her poetry into stirring new territory... Luminous, epiphanic... Evening Train leaves us floating on the mysterious lightness...of Levertov's ecstatic faith..." -- Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle

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0811212203

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The Life Around Us

Selected Poems on Nature

By: Denise Levertov

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The Life Around Us

Selected Poems on Nature

By: Denise Levertov

Gathered here in one handy volume are 62 poems about nature and the ecology. But, as the author notes in her preface, these are not all praise-poems"celebration and fear of loss are necessarily conjoined". This compact gift-book will have special appeal to those who love Mother Earth.

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0811213528

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The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes

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The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes

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Conceived as a convenience to those readers concerned with doubt and faith, Denise Levertov's 34 selected poems originally were published in seven separate volumes. The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way.

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Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

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Evening Train

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This Great Unknowing: Last Poems

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This Great Unknowing: Last Poems

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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. Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work—when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers.

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Light Up the Cave

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Light Up the Cave

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Light Up the Cave is the poet Denise Levertov's second book of prose. Like her first, The Poet in the World (1973), it includes fiction, essays, and articles, and addresses a wide range of concerns, both public and private.

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New Directions Publishing Corporation

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0811208141

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9780811208147

Making Peace

By: Denise Levertov

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Making Peace

By: Denise Levertov

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.

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0811216403

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Selected Poems

By: Denise Levertov

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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).

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0811215547

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Tesserae

Memories & Suppositions

By: Denise Levertov

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Tesserae

Memories & Suppositions

By: Denise Levertov

A series of mini-memoirs bound together like a mosaic."--Publishers Weekly

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0811213374

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Poems 1972-1982

By: Denise Levertov

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Poems 1972-1982

By: Denise Levertov

Three of Levertov's classic volumes are now available in a single edition. Included here are: "The Freeing of the Dust; Life in the Forest; " and "Candles in Babylon".

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New & Selected Essays

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New & Selected Essays

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Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true Poet: to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a 'spendor of that Grace to humanity.'" --World Literature Today

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New Selected Poems

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New Selected Poems

By: Denise Levertov

This new, comprehensive selection of one of America's foremost modern poets draws on two dozen collections published over six decades. Edited by Paul A. Lacey, it replaces her earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems (1986), and includes selections from both her earlier work and from the six later collections published by Bloodaxe in Britain, from Oblique Prayers to the posthumously published Sands of the Well and This Great Unknowing. Preface by Robert Creeley.

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