| New & Selected Essays Contributor(s): Levertov, Denise (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811212181 ISBN-13: 9780811212182 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 814.54 |
| LCCN: 92-17887 |
| Lexile Measure: 1420 |
| Series: New Directions Paperbook |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.45" W x 8.7" (0.78 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Denise Levertov's New & Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are various--poetics, the imagination, politics, spirituality, other writers--and her approach independent minded and richly complex. Here in a single volume are recent essays exploring new ground broken by Levertov in the past decade as well as the finest and most useful prose pieces from The Poet in the World (1973) and Light Up the Cave (1981). This is a book to read and reread. With their combination of sensitivity and practicality, the New & Selected Essays will prove enormously helpful to the writer and reader of poetry. As Kirkus Reviews remarked about her prose: This is humanism in its true sense--her attitude as evidenced (not described) by her writing is such that the reader cannot help but experience life, at least temporarily, with more intensity, joy, and imagination. |
Contributor Bio(s): Levertov, Denise: - 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. |