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by: Denise Levertov
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780811213523
ISBN: 0811213528
Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 77
Publication Date: 1997-05
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Sales Rank: 848814
Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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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.
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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 and joy ... Read More
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