Tesserae
Subtitle: Memories & Suppositions
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 1995
Place of publication: NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Description: Tesserae, the small individual pieces of glass or stone that make up a mosaic, is an apt title for this series of memoirs by Denise Levertov.

Rather than being a completed autobiography, these collected memoirs are, for the author, fragments of an unfinished mosaic. Each of the twenty-seven pieces of Tesserae explores a memory vital to Levertov's life; each is complete in itself and set here chronologically. And, as in any good mosaic, each piece reflects at different angles creating a play of light which gives this self-portrait its living complexity.