This Great Unknowing Last Poems

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811223191
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122239X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-17 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). 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.

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122189X
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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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."

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811210270
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213615
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222403
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222500
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211192
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216401
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Peace written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213523
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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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.