Denise Levertov: A Poet's Life

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 /  “Dana Greene’s biography of Denise Levertov is fully informed and very readable. But what distinguishes this account is that Greene has assimilated the biographical facts and a reading of Levertov’s poetry and prose into a full and rounded understanding of the course of Levertov’s life and her poetic development as a pilgrimage and quest, religious in its origins. The result is an authoritative portrait of one of the central figures in American poetry of the last fifty years.”  , coeditor of The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov “Gracefully written and eminently readable, this book provides a muchneeded biography of Denise Levertov. Offering an impressive and compelling account of the crucial events of Levertov’s life, Dana Greene illuminates invaluable connections between the poet’s interior life and her work.”   ’, author of Saint Sinatra and Other Poems “At the heart of Dana Greene’s portrait of Denise Levertov is the poet’s conviction that the essential human faculty is the imagination and that the artist’s life is ‘one of obedience to vocation.’ Considering each stage of the poet’s life, Greene writes with clarity and grace of Levertov’s intertwined active outer life and her contemplative, imaginative, emotional inner life. A thoughtful, sensitive, sensible reading of Levertov’s life and work.”  , author of Understanding Denise Levertov UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield www.press.uillinois.edu 9 7 8 0 2 5 2 0 3 7 1 0 8 9 0 0 0 0 ISBN: 978-0-252-03701-8 ...