Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions - Softcover

Levertov, Denise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811213374 ISBN 13: 9780811213370

Publisher: New Directions, 1996

Synopsis

"A series of mini-memoirs bound together like a mosaic."―Publishers Weekly

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 a completed autobiography, these collected memoirs are, for the author, fragments "composed from time to time between poems." 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, every piece reflects light at different angles, giving this self-portrait its living complexity. Tesserae differs for the first time the unique memoirs or "a poet who may just be the finest writing in English today" (Kirkus Reviews).

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Tesserae explores a memory vital to Levertov's life; each is complete in itself and set here chronologically.

About the Author:

Denise Levertov (1923-1997) was a British born American poet. She wrote and published 20 books of poetry, criticism, translations. She also edited several anthologies. Among her many awards and honors, she received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Lannan Award, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0811213374
• ISBN 13: 9780811213370
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148