The Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Nature - Softcover

Levertov, Denise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811213528 ISBN 13: 9780811213523

Publisher: New Directions, 1997

Synopsis

"I have savored her poems like salt, like honey." ―Sam Hamill, The American Poetry Review

As Denise Levertov comments in her brief foreword to The Life Around Us, she has “shared with most poets in every time and place an ardent love of what my eyes and other senses revealed to me in the world we call nature. Yet in this selection of sixty-two poems chosen by the author “celebration and fear of loss are necessarily conjoined.” The Life Around Us shows us both the eternal renewal of the natural world and its imperilment: “In these last few decades of the 20th century it has become ever clearer to all thinking people that although we humans are a part of nature ourselves, we have become, in multifarious ways, an increasingly destructive element within it, shaking and breaking ’the great web’―perhaps irremediably.”

About this title

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.

Review:

The 6:30 Bus, Late May
Against Intrusion
The Almost-island
April In Ohio
At One
The Braiding
Brother Ivy
The Cabbage Field
The Cat As Cat
Ceremonies
Chant: Sunset, Somerville, Late Fall '75
Come Into Animal Presence
Concurrence
Creature To Creature
Effacement
Elusive
Engraved
Flying High
For Instance
Forest Altar, September
From The Train, Eastward
Heights, Depths, Silence, Unceasing Sound Of The Surf
In California: Morning, Evening, Late January
In The Woods
Indian Summer
It Should Be Visible
The Life Around Us
The Life Of Others
Living
Looking Through
Mappemonde
Midsummer Eve
Mirage
Morning Mist
The Mountain Assailed
Open Secret
Pentimento
Praise Of A Palmtree
Presence
Protesting At The Nuclear Test Site
The Reminder
Revivals
A Reward
Salvation
Settling
Silent Spring
Sojourns In The Parallel World
Sound Of The Axe
A South Wind
The Stricken Children
Those Who Want Out
Tragic Error
Urgent Whisper
The Vron Woods (north Wales)
Web
What It Could Be
What One Receives From Living Close To A Lake
Whisper
The Willows Of Massachusetts
Witness
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0811213528
• ISBN 13: 9780811213523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96