Title: Tesserae
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: American Poets, Biography, Poets, American, American Women poets, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
People: Denise Levertov (1923-)
Time periods: 20th century