The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811215202 ISBN 13: 9780811215206

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2002

Synopsis

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."

About this title

About the Author

Robert Creeley (1926-2005) published more than sixty books of poetry, prose, essays, and interviews in the United States and abroad, including "If I Were Writing This, Selected Poems 1945-1990, The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005, "and "The Island. "His many honors include the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown University.

Review

A fresh reading of an important poet. -- Beloit Poetry Journal, Spring 2003

Levertov's gift for detail is matched by the way she can make yearnings and ideas seem almost physical, -- Village Voice Literary Supplement

Levertov's mastery...of contemporary poetic form, informed with a fierce, generous intelligence can be frightening. -- Ursula Le Guin, Washington Post

One of the most vitally innovative of contemporary poets. -- World Literature Today

Poems from nearly every collection of Levertov's oeuvre...a catalogue of the wildly diverse subjects that engaged her. -- Harvard Book Review, V. Joshua Adams, Spring 2003

Purely numinous and transcendent poetry....one of our best and most influential poets. -- Publishers Weekly

She was a constantly defining presence in the world we shared, a remarkable and transforming poet for all of us. -- Robert Creeley

The writing is always skillful and the themes of personal and political sustenance of universal appeal. -- Kliatt, Daniel Levinson, January 2004

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811215202
• ISBN 13: 9780811215206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Lacey Paul A