This Great Unknowing: Last Poems - Softcover

Levertov, Denise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852245662 ISBN 13: 9781852245665

Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2001

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When Denise Levertov died, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last book, This Great Unknowing. Although it could not be organised with the exquisite care she exerted on the many collections she published in her lifetime, the poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers.

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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 Times as 'the most subtly skilful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most modest, the most moving,' and during the following decades she became 'a poet who may just be the finest writing in English today' (Kirkus Reviews). Throughout her life, she worked also as a political activist, campaigning tirelessly for civil rights and environmental causes, and against the Vietnam War, the Bomb and US-backed regimes in Latin America.

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• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1852245662
• ISBN 13: 9781852245665
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64
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