Selected Poems
by Denise Levertov
from New Directions Publishing Corporation
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.
Door in the Hive
by Denise Levertov
from New Directions Publishing Corporation
Candles in Babylon
In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali
by Edward C. Dimock
from University Of Chicago Press
The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes (New Directions Paperbook, 844)
by Denise Levertov
from New Directions Publishing Corporation
Conceived as a convenience to readers themselves concerned with doubt and faith, The Stream & the Sapphire presents a compact thematic grouping of 38 poems, drawn from seven separate volumes.
This Great Unknowing
by Denise Levertov
from New Directions Publishing Corporation
When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing. With thousands of cloth copies already sold, New Directions is pleased to now offer a paperback edition. 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.
The Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Ecological Themes (New Directions Paperbook, 843)
by Denise Levertov
from New Directions Publishing Corporation
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.
Poems, 1960-1967
by Denise Levertov
from New Directions Publishing Corporation
Levertov, Poems. 1960-67 A collection of Levertov's early work
Poems 1972-1982
by Denise Levertov
from New Directions Publishing Corporation
Here gathered for the first time in a single edition are three of "Denise Levertov's" finest books: The Freeing of the Dust (1975), Life in the Forest (1978), and Candles in Babylon (1982). This new compilation -- beginning where Denise Levertov's Poems 1968-1972 left off -- testifies not only to Levertov's technical mastery, but also to her spiritual vision, especially in regard to the Vietnam War. Some of Levertov's best war poems, the result of her visit to North Vietnam in 1972, are contained in this marvelous collection. Poems 1972-1982 enables readers to observe a crucial phase in Levertov's poetic development. At the same time, it illuminates Robert Creeley's assessment that she "was a constantly defining presence in the world we shared, a remarkable and transforming poet for all of us".
Oblique Prayers
by Denise Levertov
from New Directions Publishing Corporation
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