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New & Selected Essays
Contributor(s): Levertov, Denise (Author)

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 ISBN: 0811212181     ISBN-13: 9780811212182
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
OUR PRICE: $18.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1992
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
Dewey: 814.54
LCCN: 92-17887
Lexile Measure: 1420(Not Available)
Series: New Directions Paperbook
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.45" W x 8.7" L (0.78 lbs) 276 pages
Features: Table of Contents
Review Citations: Booklist 10/15/1992 pg. 394
Publishers Weekly 09/07/1992
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Levertov, Denise: - Denise Levertov (1923-1997) was a British born American poet. She wrote and published 20 books of poetry, criticism, translations. She also edited several anthologies. Among her many awards and honors, she received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Lannan Award, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
 
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