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Levertov Denise
The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes (New Directions Paperbook)
 List Price: Price: $8.56 You Save: $4.39 (34%) DescriptionConceived as a convenience to those readers concerned with doubt and faith, Denise Levertov's 34 selected poems originally were published in seven separate volumes. The earliest dates from 1978, and the group together more or less traces Levertov's slow movement from agnosticism to Christian faith.
This Great Unknowing
 List Price: Price: $5.43 You Save: $4.52 (45%) DescriptionWhen Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing. Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work—when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers.
Selected Poems
 List Price: Price: $8.94 You Save: $6.01 (40%) DescriptionDenise Levertov's Selected Poems delivers in a single accessible volume "one of the essential poets of our time" (Poetry Flash). 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.
Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960
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The Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Ecological Themes (New Directions Paperbook, 843)
 List Price: Price: $8.92 You Save: $0.03 (%) DescriptionGathered here in one handy volume are 62 poems about nature and the ecology. But, as the author notes in her preface, these are not all praise-poems"celebration and fear of loss are necessarily conjoined." This compact gift-book will have special appeal to those who love Mother Earth.
Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions
 List Price: Price: $7.58 You Save: $11.37 (60%) Description"A series of mini-memoirs bound together like a mosaic."—Publishers Weekly Tesserae, the small individual pieces of glass or stone that make up a mosaic, is an apt title for this series of memoirs by Denise Levertov.Rather than a completed autobiography, these collected memoirs are, for the author, fragments "composed from time to time between poems." Each of the twenty-seven pieces of Tesserae explores a memory vital to Levertov's life; each is complete in itself and set here chronologically. And, as in any good mosaic, every piece reflects light at different angles, giving this self-portrait its living complexity. Tesserae differs for the first time the unique memoirs or "a poet who may just be the finest writing in English today" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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