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How splendid and impressive to have a complete, clear, and
unobstructed view of Denise Levertov. Covering more than six
decades and including, chronologically, every poem she ever
published, Levertov’s Collected Poems presents her marvelous,
groundbreaking work in full. Born in England, Denise Levertov
emigrated in 1948 to the United States, where she was acclaimed by
Kenneth Rexroth in The New York Times as “the most subtly
skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most
modest, the most moving.” A staunch anti-war activist and
environmentalist, and the winner of the Robert Frost Medal, the
Shelley Memorial Award, and the Lannan Prize, Denise Levertov
inspired generations of writers. New Directions is proud to publish
this landmark collected poems of one of the twentieth century’s
greatest poets.
How do women writers cope with changes and juggle the demands in
their already full lives to make time for their lives as artists?
In this anthology, noted female novelists, journalists, essayists,
poets, and nonfiction writers address the old and new challenges of
"doing it all" that face women writers as the twenty-first century
approaches. With eloquence, sensitivity, and more than a touch of
wry humor, Sleeping with One Eye Open relates positive stories from
women who lead effective lives as artists, emphasizing how sources
of inspiration, discipline, resourcefulness, and determination help
them succeed despite the obstacle of "no time.
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 earliest dates from 1978,
and the group together more or less traces Levertov's slow movement
from agnosticism to Christian faith.
Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of
work-when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more
than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry
of a writer at the height of her powers.
Here is the good stuff: poetry written by women that actually
excites the thinking reader. This anthology, spanning work of the
last 75 years, will broaden its readers' notions of what defines
erotic poetry. For what is more intriguing, more satisfying than
strong, self-assured writing? This groundbreaking anthology
includes some of our most powerful women writers-among them Sharon
Olds, Elizabeth Alexander, Anne Sexton, Dorianne Laux, Denise
Levertov, Adrienne Rich, Lucille Clifton, and Louise Gluck. These
poets fully demonstrate that, far from being prurient, the erotic
can permeate even the most mundane aspects of life, from reading a
book to buying clothes. At the same time, the collection affirms
the enormous meaningfulness of poetry-its ability to express the
inexpressible and to illuminate the most private and intimate of
human experiences. The poets included here represent different
ethnicities, geographies, social classes, and sexual preferences.
The only characteristic they share is that they are women writing
about sex.
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New Selected Poems (Paperback)
Denise Levertov; Edited by Paul A. Lacey; Foreword by Robert Creeley
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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.
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Selected Poems (Paperback)
Denise Levertov; Edited by Paul A. Lacey; Introduction by Robert Creeley
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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.
This bilingual collection of Eugene Guillevic's work, chosen from
six of his books published between 1942 and 1966, and translated by
the poet Denise Levertov, introduces American readers to a
highly-acclaimed French poet. Guillevic was born in Carnac in 1907
of peasant stock. He sees the profoundly austere Breton landscapes
(and all else in life) not as incidental backgrounds, but as
elemental, living presences. His poems embody his indignation at
the use and misuse of some human beings by others--as well as his
cold and clear understanding of historical process. Like William
Carlos Williams, he has a sharp eye, and as Miss Levertov points
out in her introduction, "the simplicity of diction, the plain and
hard meaning of things without descriptive qualification,
reverberates, in the highly charged condensation of Guillevic's
poems, with the ambiguity, the unfathomable mystery of natural
objects." In translating these poems, Denise Levertov has drawn
upon the affinity that exists between her own style and
Guillevic's. She has attained comparable effects of concision and
clarity and has reproduced with great subtlety the characteristic
rhythm and cadence patterns of the French originals.
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The Poems of Octavio Paz (Paperback)
Octavio. Paz; Translated by Eliot Weinberger, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, …
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The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of
Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career from his first
published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem.
This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have never
been translated into English before, plus new translations based on
Paz's final revisions. Assiduously edited by Eliot Weinberger-who
has been translating Paz for over forty years-The Poems of Octavio
Paz also includes translations by the poet-luminaries Elizabeth
Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, and
Charles Tomlinson. Readers will also find Weinberger's capsule
biography of Paz, as well as notes on many poems in Paz's own
words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his long
and singular life.
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."
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.
Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz is incontestably Latin America's
foremost living poet. The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz is a
landmark bilingual gathering of all the poetry he has published in
book form since 1952, the year of his premier long poem, Sunstone
(Piedra de Sol) here translated anew by Eliot Weinberger made its
appearance. This is followed by the complete texts of Days and
Occasions (Dias Habiles), Homage and Desecrations (Homenaje y
Profanaciones), Salamander (Salamandra), Solo for Two Voices (Solo
a Dos Voces), East Slope (Ladera Este), Toward the Beginning (Hacza
el Comienzo), Blanco, Topoems (Topoemas), Return (Vuelta), A Draft
of Shadows (Pasado en Claro), Airborn (Hijos del Aire), and Paz's
most recent collection, A Tree Within (Arbol Adentro). With
additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn,
Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, and Charles
Tomlinson."
Denise Levertov's Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960 brings under
one cover the first published works of a poet who, though born and
raised in Great Britain, has long held a distinctive place in
postwar American letters. Initiating a major literary undertaking,
the volume includes a group of hitherto ungathered poems,
selections from Ms. Levertov's earliest book, The Double Image
(1946), published in London, and her three following collections in
their entirety: Here and Now (1957), Overland to the Islands
(1958), and With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1960). Living in
the United States since the late 1940s, Ms. Levertov has often been
associated with the Black Mountain poets, while from the mid- 1960s
onward she has been one of the foremost activists in the antiwar
and anti-nuclear movements. Yet even in her more "political" poems,
her dominant perception has continued to be of the intricate
beauty, the mystery of life as it is lived. In announcing Ms.
Levertov the winner of the 1975 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize,
Hayden Carruth said of her: "For twenty-five years Denise Levertov
has been one of our most prominent poets... Today she is a woman at
the crest of her maturity, acute in perceptions, wise in responses,
and an artist, moreover, whose technique has kept pace with her
personal development." With Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960,
readers have the opportunity of following Ms. Levertov's remarkable
poetic development from its very beginnings.
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