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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780811215541
ISBN: 0811215547
Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2003-09
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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.

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent overview
Review: This is the most important collection of Levertov's poetry. It takes a sampling from every collection she published, showing the growth and versatility of her poetic line. If there is no Collected Poems, where one can have everything, then this gives an acceptable one-volume representation that is quite worthwhile.

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