Levertov: ∗poems – 1968–1972∗ (paper) - Softcover

Levertov, D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811210057 ISBN 13: 9780811210058

Publisher: New Directions, 1987

Synopsis

Denise Levertov's Poems 1968-1972 gathers together all the poems from Relearning the Alphabet (1970), To Stay Alive (1971), and Footprints (1972). Testifying to Levertov's growing strength and technical mastery as a poet, Poems 1968-1972 also affirms the clarity of her vision in its resistance to the Vietnam War and its "opposition to the whole system of insane greed of which war is only the inevitable expression."

The third retrospective volume of her poetry to be published to date by New Directions, Poems 1968-1972 carries forward the record of Denise Levertov's remarkable poetic development from Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960 and Poems 1960-1967.

About this title

About the Author:

Denise Levertov (1923-1997) was a British born American poet. She wrote and published 20 books of poetry, criticism, translations. She also edited several anthologies. Among her many awards and honors, she received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Lannan Award, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Synopsis:

Poems deal with dreams, death, courage, the soul, myths, failure, madness, hunger, nature, war, friendship, and love.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0811210057
• ISBN 13: 9780811210058
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 259