Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov ( born October 24, 1923 in Ilford, Essex, England; † December 20, 1997 in Seattle, United States) was an American poet Russian- Welsh descent.

Life

Denise Levertov was the daughter of a Welsh mother and the Russian priest of the Anglican Church Paul Philip Levertoff who had converted from Judaism. She received their education through private lessons.

After she published in 1946 with The Double Image her first book of poems, she emigrated to the USA in 1948 and published there regularly more poetry collections. Your attachment to the poets of the so-called Black Mountain movement such as Charles Olson and William Carlos Williams was revealed, with her ​​own writing style was unmistakable.

Following the publication of With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1959 ) it was in 1961 editor of poems in the magazine The Nation. In 1963, she sat down next to Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison and Philip Whalen at an event organized by Warren Tallman Poetry Conference. In the following years she remarked on numerous subjects such as the Vietnam War and feminism and her poems dealt with similar issues. So it is taking together with the writer Muriel Rukeyser, an unofficial peace mission to Hanoi to protest against the Vietnam War.

Among its better known later volumes of poetry relearning the Alphabet (1970), Footprints (1972 ) and Evening Train ( 1992). In addition, she published in 1992 with New and Selected Essays, a collection of essays on various topics. With the poet Robert Duncan led a multi-year correspondence.

In 1990 she was awarded the Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America.

Publications

1946-1969

  • The double image, 1946
  • Here and now, in 1957
  • Overland to the Islands, 1958
  • 5 Poems, 1958
  • The Jacob's ladder, 1961
  • O taste and see ', 1962
  • City psalm, 1964
  • The Sorrow Dance, 1966
  • Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, 1967
  • Out of the shadow was in 1967
  • The Cold Spring & Other Poems, 1968
  • A Marigold from North Viet Nam, 1968
  • A tree telling of Orpheus, 1968
  • Three poems, 1968
  • In the night 1968
  • Embroideries, 1969

1970-1989

  • Summer poems, 1969, 1970
  • To the reader, 1970
  • A New Year's garland for my students, 1970
  • Relearning the Alphabet, 1970
  • To Stay Alive, 1971
  • Footprints, 1972
  • The poet in the world, 1973
  • Conversation in Moscow, 1973
  • The Poet in the World, 1973
  • April in Ohio, 1973
  • The Freeing of the Dust, 1975
  • Chekhov on the West Heath, 1977
  • Modulation for solo voice, 1977
  • Life in the forest, 1978
  • Denise Levertov: In Her Own Province, 1979
  • Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960, 1979
  • Living, 1980
  • Light Up the Cave, 1981
  • A Wanderer's Daysong, 1981
  • Candles in Babylon, 1982
  • Poems, 1983
  • Two poems, 1983
  • The Acolyte, 1984
  • Oblique Prayers, 1984
  • The Menaced World, 1985
  • Poems 1968-1972, 1987
  • Breathing the water, 1987
  • A Door in the Hive, 1989

1990-1997 and posthumous publications

  • El paisaje interior, 1990
  • Evening train, 1992
  • New & Selected Essays, 1992
  • Tesserae, 1995
  • Sands of the well, 1996
  • Nine poems, 1996
  • Batterers, 1996
  • Feet, 1997
  • The Stream & the Sapphire 1997
  • Conversations with Denise Levertov, 1998
  • The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams, 1998
  • This Great Unknowing, 1999
  • Poems 1972-1982, 2001
  • Making Peace, 2002
  • With eyes of our mind, Tschudy -Verlag, St. Gallen 1961
  • From parallel worlds, AltaQuito -Verlag, Göttingen 1998
  • Beyond the field, AltaQuito -Verlag, Göttingen 2001
  • Mirage, AltaQuito -Verlag, Göttingen 2010
  • Modulations for solo voice, AltaQuito -Verlag, Göttingen 2010

Background literature

  • L. Wagner: Denise Levertov, 1967
  • Robert Alfred Wilson Jump: A bibliography of Denise Levertov. Compiled by Robert A. Wilson, New York 1972
  • Peter Middleton: Revelation and revolution in the poetry of Denise Levertov, 1981
  • William Slaughter: The imagination 's tongue. Denise Levertov 's poetic, Portree 1981
  • Liana Sakelliou -Schultz: Denise Levertov, 1988
  • Gudrun M. Grabher: The lyrical You: You oblivion and possibilities of Du- determination in American poetry, Habilitation, University of Innsbruck, 1988, ISBN 3-533-04144-1
  • Ulfried Reichardt: Interior views of postmodernism: to seal John Ashberys, AR Ammons ', and Adrienne Rich's Denise Levertovs, Dissertation Free University of Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-88479-547-3
  • Hannelore Moeckel - Rieke: fictions of nature and femininity: feminine and committed to the creation Notation for Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Susan Griffin, Kathleen Fraser and Susan Howe, PhD thesis, Ruhr -Universität Bochum, 1989, ISBN 3-922031 -34- X
  • Donald Capps: The poet 's gift: toward the renewal of pastoral care, Louisville 1993
  • Murray Bodo: Poetry as Prayer, Boston 2001
  • Robert J. Bertholf, Albert Gelpi (ed.): The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, Stanford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8047-4568-4
  • Sue Yore: The mystic way in postmodernity: transcending theological boundaries in the writings of Iris Murdoch, Denise Levertov and Annie Dillard, 2009, ISBN 978-3-03911-536-5

External links and sources

  • Literature by and about Denise Levertov in the catalog that German national library
  • Publications ( Open Library )
  • Bibliography for background literature ( Open Library )
  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh 2002, pp. 920, ISBN 0-550-10051-2
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • Essay
  • Americans
  • Briton
  • Born in 1923
  • Died in 1997
  • Woman
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