Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Levertov, Denise

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0906427851 ISBN 13 : 9780906427859

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

'Denise Levertov is America's foremost contemporary woman poet' (Library Journal). This Selected Poems, published in 1986, covered all Denise Levertov's collections up to Candles in Babylon (1982), and was her first retrospective edition to be published in the UK. Her then latest collection, Oblique Prayers, was published by Bloodaxe at the time. The selection was made by Bloodaxe Books in consultation with Denise Levertov, with helpful suggestions provided by Linda Anderson and Cynthia Fuller. Some minor revisions to a small number of poems were made by the author for this edition. It was superseded by New Selected Poems, a different selection, edited by Paul A. Lacey, posthumously published in 2003.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0906427851
• ISBN 13: 9780906427859
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible