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Selected poems / Denise Levertov ; with a preface by Robert Creeley ; edited and with an afterword by Paul A. Lacey.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 968.
- New Directions paperbook
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 220 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Early and Uncollected Poems
- Listening to Distant Drums 1
- The Double Image (1946)
- Childhood's End 1
- Poem ("Some are too much at home in the role of wanderer") 2
- Too Easy: to Write of Miracles 3
- Here and Now (1957)
- The Earthwoman and the Waterwoman 4
- The Marriage 4
- The Marriage (II) 5
- Laying the Dust 5
- Everything that Acts Is Natural 6
- Overland to the Islands (1958)
- Overland to the Islands 7
- The Instant 7
- Illustrious Ancestors 8
- Action 8
- Merritt Parkway 10
- With Eyes at the Back of our Heads (1960)
- Pleasures 13
- To the Snake 14
- Obsessions 14
- The Dead 15
- Terror 15
- The Jacob's Ladder (1961)
- A Common Ground 16
- Come into Animal Presence 19
- A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England 20
- Three Meditations 22
- The Jacob's Ladder 25
- The Tulips 26
- During the Eichmann Trial: "When We Look Up" 27
- O Taste and See (1964)
- The Ache of Marriage 30
- Song for Ishtar 30
- Claritas 31
- The Secret 33
- September 1961 34
- O Taste and See 36
- Eros at Temple Stream 37
- The Stone-Carver's Poem 38
- The Disclosure 38
- About Marriage 39
- The Prayer 40
- Hypocrite Women 42
- In Mind 43
- The Sorrow Dance (1967)
- The Wings 44
- Joy 46
- Annuals 49
- The Mutes 50
- The Cat as Cat 51
- Living 52
- A Lamentation 53
- Olga Poems 54
- The Closed World 62
- Second Didactic Poem 62
- Life at War 64
- To Speak 65
- Bedtime 66
- Relearning the Alphabet (1970)
- The Broken Sandal 77
- The Cold Spring 78
- At David's Grave 82
- What Wild Dawns There Were 83
- July 1968 84
- A Cloak 85
- A Tree Telling of Orpheus 86
- To Stay Alive (1971)
- Advent 1966 91
- Tenebrae 92
- "Staying Alive" (excerpts) 93
- i. At the Justice Department November 15, 1969 93
- ii. Gandhi's Gun (and Brecht's Vow) 94
- Entr'acte 'Let Us Sing Unto the Lord a New Song' 96
- Footprints (1972)
- Love Poem 97
- 3 a.m., September 1, 1969 98
- The Wanderer 98
- The Old King 99
- Memories of John Keats 100
- To Antonio Machado 101
- The Life Around Us 101
- The Freeing of the Dust (1975)
- Living Alone (I) 102
- Living Alone (II) 103
- Living Alone (III) 103
- Divorcing 104
- Libation 105
- Prayer for Revolutionary Love 106
- The Freeing of the Dust 107
- The Woman 108
- The Life of Others 109
- Life in the Forest (1978)
- A Woman Alone 110
- Chekhov on the West Heath 112
- The 90th Year 117
- A Soul-Cake 118
- Talking to Grief 120
- Wedding-Ring 121
- Candles in Babylon (1982)
- Talking to Oneself 122
- Poet and Person 124
- The Dragon-fly Mother 125
- Candles in Babylon 128
- Williams: An Essay 128
- Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus 130
- Beginners 137
- Concurrence 138
- She and the Muse 139
- Oblique Prayers (1984)
- Decipherings 140
- The Avowal 142
- St. Peter and the Angel 143
- The Antiphon 144
- Of Being 144
- "... That Passeth All Understanding" 145
- Breathing the Water (1987)
- The Servant Girl at Emmaus 146
- "I learned that her name was Proverb" 146
- Hunting the Phoenix 147
- The Spirits Appeased 148
- Caedmon 149
- Making Peace 150
- During a Son's Dangerous Illness 151
- On a Theme from Julian's Chapter XX 152
- The Showings: Lady Julian of Norwich, 1342-1416) 154
- Variation and Reflection on a Theme by Rilke (The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem 7) 161
- A Door in the Hive (1989)
- Annuniciation 162
- Braiding 164
- Flickering Mind 165
- The Love of Morning 166
- Wings in the Pedlar's Pack 167
- St. Thomas Didymus 168
- The Life of Art 171
- To Rilke 172
- A Traveler 172
- A Woodcut 173
- Web 174
- Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell 174
- Evening Train (1992)
- Suspended 176
- Settling 176
- Elusive 177
- Effacement 177
- Presence 178
- Open Secret 178
- For Bet 179
- Flowers of Sophia 179
- Evening Train 180
- Witness 181
- Salvador Mundi: Via Crucis 182
- Sands of the Well (1998)
- What Harbinger? 183
- Le Motif 183
- In Question 184
- The Mystery of Deep Candor 184
- Sojourns in the Parallel World 185
- The Change 186
- For Those Whom the Gods Love Less 187
- Conversion of Brother Lawrence 188
- Pentimento 190
- Sands of the Well 191
- Primary Wonder 192
- Crow Spring 193
- In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being 194
- This Great Unknowing: Last Poems (1999)
- Celebration 194
- First Love 195
- Roast Potatoes 197
- the mountain's daily speech is silence 199
- Once Only 199
- The Metier of Blossoming 200
- Enduring Love 202.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0811215202
- 9780811215206
- 0811215547
- 9780811215541
- OCLC:
- 53808773
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