Denise Levertov: A Poet's Life
"Aptly titledA Poet's Life, this biography gives due attention to Levertov's work and the woman who wrote it."--Washington Times"This impressive study is the first complete biography of [Denise Levertov]."--Library Journal"This absorbing book is must reading for lovers of American literature, particularly by women, and contemporary poetry.  Essential."--Choice"Greene's admiration for, and empathy with, Levertov is clear throughout this very readable book."--The Tablet"Brings alive the writer's lifetime vocation as a 'celebrant of Mystery'. . . . Greene, who has written lives of other spiritual thinkers like Evelyn Underhill and Maisie Ward, shows from Levertov's private diaries and journals the close connection between her personal struggles, her poetic maturaltion and her spiritual transformation."--America Magazine"Greene has done us all a service with this much awaited and essential portrait of a major figure in American Literature. . . . Greene does a brilliant job of identifying this lifelong spiritual quest of Levertov as a central movement of her life, and connects these deep personal ties to family to the poems, thus revealing the life through the work and the work through the life. . . . Greene creates exactly the kind of biography that Levertov would have wanted--and we so needed."--New York Journal of Books