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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Denise Levertov |
| ISBN: | 0811212173 9780811212175 0811212181 9780811212182 |
| OCLC Number: | 26012653 |
| Description: | 266 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Some affinities of content -- On Williams' triadic line -- Williams and the duende -- The ideas in the things -- Williams and Eliot -- Some notes on organic form -- On the need for new terms -- Linebreaks, stanza-spaces, and the inner voice -- Technique and tune-up -- Genre and gender v. serving an art -- "News that stays news" -- Horses with wings -- Great possessions -- The poet in the world -- Paradox and equilibrium -- Poetry, prophecy, survival -- Poetry and peace : some broader dimensions -- Biography and the poet -- Anne Sexton : light up the cave -- Some Duncan letters-- a memoir and a critical tribute -- Rilke as mentor -- A poet's view -- Work that enfaiths -- An autobiographical sketch. |
| Other Titles: | New and selected essays. |
| Responsibility: | Denise Levertov. |
Abstract:
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). 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."
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