Poems 1968-1972 - Softcover

Levertov, Denise

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.

Review:

3 A.m., September 1, 1969
Adam's Complaint
Advent 1966
Alice Transfixed
Animal Rights
At David's Grave
At The Mass Ave Poetry Hawkers' Reading
Biafra
Brass Tacks
The Broken Sandal
Bullfrogs To Fireflies To Moths
By Rail Through The Earthly Paradise, Perhaps Bedfordshire
The Cabbage Field
A Cloak
The Cold Spring
Craving
The Curve
Dance Memories
A Dark Summer Day
The Day The Audience Walked Out On Me, And Why
A Defeat
A Defeat In The Green Mountains
Despair
Dialogue
Dream
Earth Dust
Earthwards
An Embroidery
Entr'acte (1)
Entr'acte (2)
Entr'acte (3)
Equilibrium
Exchange
February Evening In Boston, 1971
The Footprints
For Paul And Sally Goodman
Forest Altar, September
Fragment
Gifts
Goethe's Blues: 1
The Good Dream
The Gulf
The Gulf (ii)
He-who-came-forth
The Heart
Hope It's True
A Hunger
Hut
In Silence
Initiation
Intrusion
Invocation
Joie De Vivre
July 1968
Keeping Track
Knowing The Way
Leather Jacket
Liebestod
The Life Around Us
Life At War
Life Is Not A Walk Across A Field
Living With A Painting
Love Poem
M.c.5
Mad Song
The Malice Of Innocence
Man Alone
A Marigold From North Vietnam
Memories Of John Keats
Moon Tiger
The Needles
New Year's Garland For My Students
The News
Not To Have
Not Yet
A Note To Olga
Novella
Obstinate Faith
An Old Friend's Self Portrait
The Old King
Olga Poems (olga Levertov, 1914-1964)
Only Connect
The Open Secret
Overheard Over S.e. Asia
Part I
Part Ii
Part Iii
Part Iv
A Place To Live
The Poem Unwritten
Prologue: An Interim
Prologue: An Interim
The Rain
The Rebuff
Relearning The Alphabet
Riders At Dusk
Road
The Roamer
Scenario
Secret Festival; September Moon
The Singer
Small Satori
Snail
Somebody Trying
Souvenir D'amitie
The Sun Going Down Upon Our Wrath
Sun, Moon, And Stones
Swan That Sings And
Tenebrae (fall Of 1967)
Time To Breathe
To Antonio Machado
To Kevin O'leary, Wherever He Is
A Tree Telling Of Orpheus
Two Variations: Enquiry
Under A Blue Star
Waiting
The Wanderer
Wanting The Moon (i)
Wanting The Moon (ii)
What Were They Like
What Wild Dawns There Were
Why Me
Wind Song
Wings Of A God
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0811210057
• ISBN 13: 9780811210058
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 259