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20%OFFDenise Levertov - New Selected Poems - 9781852246532 - V9781852246532
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New Selected Poems

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Description for New Selected Poems Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
This new, comprehensive selection of one of America’s foremost modern poets draws on two dozen collections published over six decades. Edited by Paul A. Lacey, it replaces her earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems (1986), and includes selections from both her earlier work and from the six later collections published by Bloodaxe in Britain, from Oblique Prayers to the posthumously published Sands of the Well and This Great Unknowing. Preface by Robert Creeley.

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852246532
SKU
V9781852246532
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99-40

About Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov (1923-97) was born in Essex, and educated at home by her father, a Russian Jewish immigrant, who became an Anglican priest, and by her Welsh mother. She sent her poems as a child to T.S. Eliot, who admired and encouraged her. In 1948, she emigrated to America, where she was acclaimed by Kenneth Rexroth in The New York ... Read more

Reviews for New Selected Poems
This generous selection brings news of Levertov’s final achievement. Here we can observe, from poems which span the decades, how this most private artist became a great and abiding public poet. As we read, her superb language and wayward music burn themselves into our minds and memories. In every time there are just a few poets whose work – for ... Read more

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