The Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Nature
I have savored her poems like salt, like honey. —Sam Hamill, The American Poetry ReviewAs 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: In these last few decades of the 20th century it has become ever clearer to all thinking people that although we humans are a par…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2443-7
- EAN: 9780811224437
- Produktnummer: 34247857
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 481 KB
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Denise Levertov (1923-1997) was a British born American poet. She wrote and published 20 books of poetry, criticism, translations. She also edited several anthologies. Among her many awards and honors, she received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Lannan Award, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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