Poems 1972-1982 - Softcover

Levertov, Denise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811214699 ISBN 13: 9780811214698

Publisher: New Directions, 2001

Synopsis

Three of Denise Levertov's classic volumes, now available in a single edition. 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 compilationbeginning where Denise Levertov's Poems 1968-1972 left offtestifies 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."

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

An excellent representation of a major poet. -- Kirkus Reviews, 1 March 2001

Denise Levertov is the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most modest, the most moving. -- Kenneth Rexroth, The New York Times

Her poems bring joy to the ear and, by their transcendental shimmer, inspire a spiritual hunger. -- The Bloomsbury Review

The 90th Year
About Political Action In Which Each Individual Acts From The Heart
The Acolyte
Afar (2), Sels
Age Of Terror
Alongside
An Ancient Tree
April In Ohio
An Arrival (north Wales, 1897)
The Art Of The Octopus: Variations On A Found Theme
Artist To Intellectual (poet To Explainer)
Autumnal
The Balance
Beginners
Blake's Baptismal Font
The Blue Rim Of Memory
The Bride
Bus
The Cabdriver's Smile
Cancion
Candles In Babylon
The Catpig
Chant: Sunset, Somerville, Late Fall '75
Chekhov On The West Heath
The Chill
Cloud Poems: 1. The Cloud
Cloud Poems: 2. The Recollection
Cloud Poems: 3. The Cutting-beam
Concurrence
Consulting The Oracle
Continent
Continuum
Conversation In Moscow
Craving
Crosspurposes
A Daughter (1)
A Daughter (2)
Death In Mexico
Death Psalm: O Lord Of Mysteries
Desolate Light
The Distance
Divorcing
Dogbrothers
Don't You Hear That Whistle Blowin' ...
Dragon Of Revolutionary Love
The Dragonfly-mother
Dream Inscape
Dream: Chateau De Galais
Dwellers At The Hermitage
Earliest Spring
'elle Est Debrouillarde'
Emblem (1)
Emblem (2)
The Emissary
An English Field In The Nuclear Age
Engraved
Epilogue
Eyes And No-eyes
Face
Fantasiestuck
Fellow Passengers
For A Child
For Chile, 1977
For Nikolai, Many Thousand Miles Away
For The Blind
For The New Year, 1981
For X...
Fragment
Fragrance Of Life, Odor Of Death
Freedom
The Freeing Of The Dust
From A Plane
From Afar
From The Train, Eastward
Goodbye To Tolerance
The Great Wave
Greeting To The Vietnamese Delegates To The U.n.
Grey August
Grief
Growth Of A Poet
Heights, Depths, Silence, Unceasing Sound Of The Surf
Her Delight
Her Destiny
Her Judgement
Her Lament
Her Nightmare
Her Sadness
Her Secret
Her Sister
Her Task
Her Vision
Hidden Monsters At The Mount Auburn Cemetery, A Found Poem
Holiday: 1. Postcard
Holiday: 2. Meeting Again
Holiday: 3. To Eros
Holiday: 4. Love Letter
Holiday: 5. Postcard
Human Being
Improbable Truth
In Memory Of Muriel Rukeyser
In Summer (2)
In Thai Binh (peace) Province
Intimation (1)
Isis Speaks
Journeyings
Kindness
Knowing The Unknown
Letter
A Letter To Marek About A Photograph
Libation
Life In The Forest
The Life Of Others
Like Loving Chekhov
Living Alone (1)
Living Alone (2)
Living Alone (3)
Living For Two
The Long Way Round
A Look At The Night (temple, Early '60s)
Love Poem
Magic
The Many Mansions
Marta (brazil, 1928)
Mass For The Day Of St. Thomas Didymus: 1. Kyrie
Mass For The Day Of St. Thomas Didymus: 2. Gloria
Mass For The Day Of St. Thomas Didymus: 3. Credo
Mass For The Day Of St. Thomas Didymus: 4. Sanctus
Mass For The Day Of St. Thomas Didymus: 5. Benedictus
Mass For The Day Of St. Thomas Didymus: 6. Agnus Dei
The May Mornings
May Our Right Hands Lose Their Cunning
Metamorphic Journal
Modes Of Being
Modulations
Movement
A Mystery (oaxaca, Mexico)
New Items: 1. America The Bountiful
New Items: 2. In The Riddle
Nightingale Road
Old People Dozing
On The 32nd Anniversary Of The Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
On The Way
The Passing Bell
The Phonecall
Photo Torn From The Times
Pig-song
A Pilgrim Dreaming
The Pilots
A Place Of Kindness
A Poem At Christmas, 1972, During The Terror-bombing Of North Vietnam
'the Poem Rising By Its Own Weight'
Poet And Person
The Poet Li Po Admiring A Waterfall
Postcard
Prayer For Revolutionary Love
Psalm: People Power At The Die-in (2)
Psyche In Somerville
The Quality Of Genius
Rain Spirit Passing
Re-rooting
Romance
Room
Run Aground
Scornful Reprieve
Seth Thomas: A Love Poem
She And The Muse
Silk
Slowly
A Son
The Soothsayer
A Soul-cake
A Sound Of Fear
Sound Of The Axe
A Speech: For Antidraft Rally, D.c., March 22, 1980
The Split Mind
Split Second
Strange Song
Talk In The Dark
Talking To Grief
Talking To Oneself
A Time Past
Too Much To Hope
Tropic Ritual
Two Artists
Unresolved
A Visit
Visitant
Volupte
Voyage
The Vron Woods (north Wales)
A Wanderer
Wanderer's Daysong
Waving To The Devil
The Way It Is
Ways Of Conquest
The Wealth Of The Destitute
Wedding-ring
Weeping Woman
What It Could Be
What My House Would Be Like If It Were A Person
What She Could Not Tell Him
Williams: An Essay
Winter Afternoons In The V. &a., Pre-w.w.ii
Winterpig
The Woman
A Woman Alone
A Woman Meets An Old Lover
A Woman Pacing Her Room, Reading A Letter, Returning Again And ....
Writing In The Dark
Writing To Aaron
A Young Man Travelling
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0811214699
• ISBN 13: 9780811214698
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288