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by: Denise Levertov
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780811212205
ISBN: 0811212203
Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 132
Publication Date: April 01, 1993
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Sales Rank: 1111423
Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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In the title poem of this collection, Denise Levertov again demonstrates the arresting imagery that has characterized her poetic career. Our unchanging perception of self, she writes, is 'the dimension / that moves with us but itself keeps still / like the bubble in a carpenter's level.' The image does a lot of poetic work for her, suggesting the way the self is constructed, with hidden flaws, faintly remembered blueprints, and room for repairs and revisions. A number of these poems bring to mind Eliot's old term 'objective correlative,' and rewards the reader's attention with hypnotic language. Here is a longtime favorite at top form.
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