Books : The Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Ecological Themes (New Directions Paperbook, 843)
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by: Denise Levertov
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780811213516
ISBN: 081121351X
Label: New Directions
Manufacturer: New Directions
Number Of Pages: 77
Publication Date: 1997-05
Publisher: New Directions
Sales Rank: 2578101
Studio: New Directions
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Book Description:
Gathered here in one handy volume are 62 poems about nature and the ecology. But, as the author notes in her preface, these are not all praise-poems'celebration and fear of loss are necessarily conjoined.' This compact gift-book will have special appeal to those who love Mother Earth. As Denise Levertov comments in her brief foreword to The Life Around Us, she has 'shared with most poets in every time and place an ardent love of what my eyes and other senses revealed to me in the world we call 'nature'.' Yet in this selection of sixty-two poems chosen by the author 'celebration and fear of loss are necessarily conjoined.' The Life Around Us shows us both the eternal renewal of the natural world and its imperilment.
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Rating: - Wonderful. Best Modern Poetry I've read.
I was delighted with this little book of poems on nature. I enjoy her writing style and her imagery. Each poem is a little gem, and I haven't felt that way about poems for awhile.
Rating: - Levertov anthology re-collects poems of natural world.
Poet Cora Brooks has written, "Forgive these words, they are not birds." Academic philosophers have built careers upon speculations that what most of us call Literature is a falsehood, an intellectual sham or circus trick. Meanwhile, for altogether different reasons, imaginative writers continue to wrestle, as they have always done, with the difficulty of accurately catching in words the dizzying vivaciousness of being alive. A recent book by Denise Levertov celebrates both the effort ... Read More
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