description: Life in the Forest  is Denise Levertov’s first major collection since the publication in 1975 of  The Freeing of the Dust , winner of the Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize, and is her eleventh book with New Directions, in a connection of nearly twenty years’ standing. Ms. Levertov’s work holds that tenuous yet inspiring ground between reflection and discourse. The dynamics of this sensitive balance is pointed up in  Life in the Forest  by a thematic grouping which invites internal association from poem to poem and section to section. “The poems I had been moving towards,” she explains, “were impelled by two first, a recurring need…to vary a habitual lyric mode; not to abandon it, by any means, but from time to time explore more expansive means; and second, the decision to try to avoid over use of the autobiographical, the dominant first-person singular of so much American poetry―good and bad―of recent years.”
language: English
title: Life In the Forest
titlecomplete: Life In the Forest
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 58
publisher: New Directions