A poet's revolution
Subtitle: the life of Denise Levertov
By: Donna Krolik Hollenberg
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780520272460
Subjects: American Poets; Jewish Christians; Biography; Political and social views
Description: "The first full-length biography of British-born poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life a major voice in American poetry during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on exhaustive archival reserach of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Krolik Hollneberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Korlik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both a woman and an artist, and the dynamic world she inhabited" -- Front jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Listening to distant guns (1923-1948). "The walls of the garden, the first light": beginnings (1923-1933); "When Anna screamed": Levertov's response to Nazi oppression (1933-1939); The double image: apprenticeship during World War Two (1939-1946); "Recoveries": abortion, adventure, and marriage (1947- 48); title: A common ground (1949-1966). "Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960); title: "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963); title: "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?1966); title: Life at war (1966-74). "Revolution or death": living in the movement (1966-1970); "The freeing of the dust": the revolution hits home (1970-1974); title: Sleepers awake (1975-1988). "A woman alone": beginning again (1975-1981); "Writing in the dark": social protest and liberation theology (1982-1988); title: Resettling (1989-1997). "Of shadow and flame": the re-cognition of identity (1989-1992); "Beauty growls in the fertile dark": facing death (1992-1997).