Denise Levertov in Company

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178738
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Book Synopsis Denise Levertov in Company by : Donna Krolik Hollenberg

Download or read book Denise Levertov in Company written by Donna Krolik Hollenberg and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflection on this poet's legacy through essays by contemporary poets and literary critics Denise Levertov (1923-1997) was an award-winning author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose featuring the subjects of politics and war and, in later years, religion. Born and raised in England amid political unrest and war, Levertov moved to the United States after World War II and settled in as a passionate poet/activist for peace and environmental conservation. She initially gained recognition as a member of the Black Mountain poets and later as a highly respected mentor and educator at esteemed universities including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brandeis, and Stanford, where she helped shape future generations of poets. In Denise Levertov in Company, Donna Krolik Hollenberg has assembled ten essays by contemporary poets who were influenced by Levertov as former students and/or colleagues and another ten by literary critics. Hollenberg selected contributors on the basis of their spiritual, intellectual, and political connections with Levertov at different stages of her life in the United States, and all are distinguished in their own right. The first five poets became acquainted with Levertov in the 1960s and 1970s, when she and they protested against the war in Vietnam. The next five poets, who were close to Levertov in the 1980s and 1990s while she was at Stanford, respond to aspects of Levertov's religious quest and her love and concern for the natural world. To assess Levertov's influence on contemporary poetry, Hollenberg has organized the essays into pairs. First a contributor offers a personal essay about his or her relationship with Levertov, which is followed by a companion essay about the contributor's poetry in relation to Levertov's. What emerges is a dialogue between autobiographical testimony and critical analysis. This combination of personal witness and objective evaluation contributes to a greater understanding of the contemporary poetry scene and the influence of Levertov's distinguished and affecting legacy. Contributors: Rae Armantrout Eavan Boland Martha Collins Alison Hawthorne Deming Susan Eisenberg Reginald Gibbons Donna Krolik Hollenberg Romana Huk Paul Lacey Aldon Lynn Nielsen Kathleen Norris Mark Pawlak Peggy Rosenthal Ben Sáenz Peter Dale Scott David Shaddock Michael Thurston Emily Warn Bruce Weigl Al Young

Making Peace

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216401
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Making Peace written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The poems gathered here span the last three decades of Levertov's life, their subjects ranging from Vietnam to the death-squads of El Salvador to the first Gulf War." -- Back cover. -- Provided by publisher.

Breathing the Water

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811210270
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Breathing the Water written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Levertov's master--more than mastery, because she is one of the originators--of contemporary poetic form, informed with a fierce, generous intelligence, can be frightening." --Ursula Le Guin, Washington Post

Denise Levertov

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252037103
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Denise Levertov by : Dana Greene

Download or read book Denise Levertov written by Dana Greene and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levertov was the quintessential romantic. She wanted to live vividly, intensely, passionately, and on a grand scale. Once she acclimated herself to America, the dreamy lyric poetry of her early years gave way to the joy and wonder of ordinary life. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, her poems began to engage the issues of her times. The crystalline and luminous poetry of her last years stands as final witness to a lifetime of searching for the mystery embedded in life itself. This volume represents the first attempt to set Levertov's poetry within the framework of her often tumultuous life.

This Great Unknowing

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214582
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book This Great Unknowing written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing.

Selected Poems

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122239X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denise 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.

The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780811237543
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark collected work of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, now in paperback.

Evening Train

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811212205
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Evening Train written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Evening Train, Denise Levertov's twenty-first collection, carries the extended pilgrimage of her poetry into stirring new territory... Luminous, epiphanic... Evening Train leaves us floating on the mysterious lightness...of Levertov's ecstatic faith..." -- Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle

Denise Levertov

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"this need to dance / this need to kneel"

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532677367
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis "this need to dance / this need to kneel" by : Michael P. Murphy

Download or read book "this need to dance / this need to kneel" written by Michael P. Murphy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Denise Levertov (1923–97) was one of the most pioneering and skilled poets of her generation is beyond dispute. Her masterly use of language, innovative experimentations with organic form, and the political acuity disclosed by her activist poetry are well marked by critical communities. But it is also quite clear that the poems Levertov wrote in the last twenty years of her life, with their more explicit focus on theological themes and subjects, are among the best poems written on religious experience of any century, let alone the twentieth. The collection of essays gathered here shed vital light on this neglected aspect of Levertov studies so as to expand and enrich the scope of critical engagement. In a mixture of theoretical considerations and close readings, these essays provide valuable reflections about the complex relationship between poetry and belief and offer philosophically robust insights into different styles of poetic imagination. The abiding hope is to broaden the terrain for discussions in twenty-first-century theology, literary theory, poetics, and aesthetics—honoring immanence, exploring transcendence, and dwelling with integrity within the spaces between.

We'll Call You If We Need You

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501719785
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis We'll Call You If We Need You by : Susan Eisenberg

Download or read book We'll Call You If We Need You written by Susan Eisenberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We'll Call You If We Need You -- Contents -- Preface to the 2018 Printing -- Acknowledgments -- Thumbnail Sketch -- Introduction -- Chapter One Footings -- Pioneering -- Chapter Two Doors, Windows, Locks -- Chapter Three Crossing the Threshold: First Days -- Chapter Four Ain't Got to Show You Shit -- Chapter Five Making Gender Boundaries: Porn, Piss, Power Tools -- Chapter Six (and yet) Passions -- Chapter Seven Exceptional Men -- Chapter Eight Balancing Along across an I-Beam -- Settling In -- Chapter Nine Bucket or Bathroom? -- Chapter Ten Carrying Weight -- Chapter Eleven Customized Treatment: Women of Color -- Chapter Twelve Ceilings and Access Panels: Economics -- Chapter Thirteen Ceilings and Access Panels: Leadership -- Chapter Fourteen Expansion Joints -- Chapter Fifteen Punch List -- The Tradeswomen -- Who's Where -- Record of Interviews.

My Deniversity

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Publisher : Madhat, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781952335303
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book My Deniversity written by Mark Pawlak and published by Madhat, Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Much more than the story of Mark Pawlak's apprenticeship to a major poet (Denise Levertov), My Deniversity is a brilliant and delightful introduction to what it means to commit one's self to Poetry, capital P. Guided by Levertov, aspiring physicist Mark Pawlak turned himself into an important American poet and co-editor of Hanging Loose, one of the country's longest lived and most influential literary presses. Open-hearted, witty, and genuinely instructive, the book is simultaneously a reminiscence, a social history of a singular period in American letters, and an insider's guide to the craft. My Deniversity belongs on the shelf alongside Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet and Pound's ABC of Reading." -Askold Melnyczuk, author of The Man Who Would Not Bow, founder of Agni "Mark Pawlak gives us a vivid, perceptive account of his years as a student, mentee, and friend of Denise Levertov, from the late 1960s until her death in 1997. He brings alive her approach to writing poetry and to being a political activist, and offers distinctive memories of other important people in her life, including her husband, Mitch Goodman and her son, Nikolai Goodman, as well as other poets who were her contemporaries or former students. We also hear about her literary and personal preferences and views. Reading this will bring you to Levertov's figurative kitchen table." -Donna Krolik Hollenberg, author of A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov "Mark Pawlak was there, and My Deniversity is his memoir of his years of friendship with Denise Levertov and how under her tutelage he became a poet. Here we encounter Levertov as teacher, social activist, poet, friend, parent, and daughter. We learn of her generosity and her inconsistencies and her fiercely held views on poetics, feminism, homosexuality, confessionalism, Language poets and political poetry as well as her relationships with William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan. In this first-hand, vibrant account Denise Levertov comes alive for the reader." -Dana Greene, author of Denise Levertov: A Poet's Life and Elizabeth Jennings: The Inward War

Sands of the Well

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213615
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Sands of the Well written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denise Levertov was born in England in 1923. She published her first book of poems in 1946 and moved to America in 1948. SANDS OF THE WELL, first published in hardcover in 1996, shows the poet at the height of her considerable powers, as she addresses the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest coastal landscape in terms of music, memory, aging, doubt, and faith.

Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804751315
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (513 download)

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Book Synopsis Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov by : Albert Gelpi

Download or read book Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov written by Albert Gelpi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished group of critics examine the close association between Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, two poets central to the American postwar period, and the issues of form and meaning that drew them together and then split them apart, especially the question of the relation between poetry and politics, the private and public responsibilities of the poet.

Candles in Babylon

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Publisher : New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Candles in Babylon written by Denise Levertov and published by New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1982 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denise Levertov's Candles in Babylon evinces both the inner strength gained by a life of social commitment and the quiet wisdom born of solitude. The seventy-one poems in the book--her first full collection since Life in the Forest (1978)-- are grouped into several thematic sections that explore by turns the subtleties in the shifting balance between our public and private selves, the poet's voice ranging from the wry satire of her "Pig Dreams" sequence to the resonant grandeur of her six-part "Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus." Behind it all is the gentle melancholy of the title poem and the poet's vision of peace.

The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222403
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997-05-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceived 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 poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way.

O Taste and See

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book O Taste and See written by Denise Levertov and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: