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from: University Press of Mississippi
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781578060740
ISBN: 1578060745
Label: University Press of Mississippi
Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: October 01, 1998
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Sales Rank: 1148168
Studio: University Press of Mississippi
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Denise Levertov, American poet and activist, died in December 1997 at the age of 74. This book contains some twenty previously uncollected interviews conducted between the early 1960s and the middle of the 1990s. They are focused primarily on her work as a poet but also on her social and political concerns. The interviews in which Levertov discusses her craft constitute an important document on American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. She talks of her legendary friendship with her mentor William Carlos Williams and her association with the Black Mountain Poets. As she discusses her craft in great detail, she gives special attention to diction, line lengths, versification, and choice of subject matter. Students of American culture and readers of American poetry will be delighted by this collection of the personal views of one of the century's best poets.
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For those who want a better understanding and feel for Denise Levertov, and her aesthetics as a writer and poetess, this is essential. The range of interviews cover the period 1963-1995, so one is given a broad and detailed view of her evolution, and the evolution of her views, which latter remained admirably consistent.
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