Download or read book The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book This Great Unknowing Last Poems written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-17 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Collected Earlier Poems 1940 1960 written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Stream the Sapphire Selected Poems on Religious Themes written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997-05-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Life Around Us written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Poems of Denise Levertov 1960 1967 written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1983-05-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Poems 1972 1982 written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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".
Download or read book The Freeing of the Dust written by Denise Levertov and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixty poems that comprise The Freeing of the Dust, Denise Levertov continued to explore the personal and public themes that threaded through her work during the disastrous American involvement in Indochina. Relations with family and close friends are depicted with unique poignancy as she pits the at times terrifying concrete image against her vision of the ideal. Here we have poems that speak out of the direct tragedy of war, the result of Ms. Levertov's visit to North Vietnam in the fall of 1972, while others reflect the anguish and the exultation of what she has called the 'inner/outer experience in America during the '60's and the beginning of the '70's.
Download or read book Oblique Prayers Poetry written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1984-10-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine written by Kathleen Raine and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine drew from six decades of poetry to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. The result was this definitive edition, now published by Faber & Faber, which on first release in 2001 was welcomed both by Raine's admirers and by those newly discovering a poet who has unfailingly given voice to a vision of life in which the temporal, in all its modes and places, is imbued with the numinous and the eternal.
Download or read book Breathing the Water written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Download or read book A Door in the Hive written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems address such topics as paintings, music, landscapes, and the terror in El Salvador.
Download or read book Light Up the Cave written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of fiction and essays includes three short stories, articles on the craft of poetry focusing on the musical function of the line, and a discussion of the relation of poets to politics.
Download or read book Sands of the Well written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denise Levertov was born in England in 1923. She published her first book of poems in 1946 and moved to America in 1948. 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.
Download or read book New Selected Essays written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denise Levertov's Selected Poems delivers in a single accessible volume "one of the essential poets of our time" (Poetry Flash).
Download or read book With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads written by Denise Levertov and published by New York, N.Y. : New Directions. This book was released on 1959 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
