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Superb!
Another reviewer referred to the author as "Edward Dimock, the consummate scholar of Bengali studies". Nothing could be more true. I bought this book 35 years ago when I was a student at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. It was stolen from me back in '73, but I never forgot it. I am glad that I was able to get it again from Amazon. This book gives the essence of Jayadeva, Vidyapati, Chandidas, Mirabai, et al. Do not think a small paperback lacks intellectual depth.

Beautiful!
The reviews say it all.This is a very fortuitous partnership of scholar and poet!The songs come alive in their hands.Makes me want to sing them.

A gem of erotic poetry conveying the flavor (rasa) of love.
That Edward Dimock, the consummate scholar of Bengali studies, and Denise Levertov, the consummate modern poet, would collaborate togetheris a match made in heaven.The book is a gem.Give it to someone you love, yet better still, read it to him or her.

Or savor it alone in quiet still moments so delicious that only spiritual erotic love poems, perfectly and sensually rendered, could dare express their rare flavor.That flavor, rasa, is the taste of love, served up authentically and exquisitely, but alas, in far too small a portion.

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This book examines the early work of William Carlos Williams in relationship to a women's tradition of American poetry, as represented by Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser--three generations of women poets working in or directly from a modernist tradition.Linda Kinnahan traces notions of the feminine and the maternal that develop as Williams seeks to create a modern poetics.Positioning Williamas in relationship to these three generations of Anglo-American women, the book pursues two questions: what can women poets, writing with an informed awareness of Williams, teach us about his modernist poetics of contact, and just as importantly, what can they teach us about the process, for women, of constructing a self within a male-dominated tradition? ... Read more

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Illuminating reflections on the achievements of poet Denise Levertov
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Denise Levertov, American poet and activist, died in December 1997 at the age of 74. This book contains some twenty previously uncollected interviews conducted between the early 1960s and the middle of the 1990s. They are focused primarily on her work as a poet but also on her social and political concerns. She was forty years old and already recognized as an important poet at the time of the first of these interviews. She was past seventy and an icon of American culture at the time of the most recent.

Levertov was born in England of a Welsh mother and a Russian-born Anglican priest who had converted from Judaism. She first made her mark as a poet in the late 1950s. Her poetry was recognized as distinctive and indeed brilliant. The earliest interviews are focused on her poetic craft and on her youth in England, her education, her marriage to an American, and her postwar move to New York. In 1955 she became a U.S. citizen, and in the 1960s and 1970s she and her husband Mitchell Goldman were among the most visible and vocal opponents of the Viet-nam War. After the war, she retained her interest in social and political issues and continued over the years to write deeply moving poetry about her life and about contemporary events.

The interviews in which Levertov discusses her craft constitute an important document on American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. She talks of her legendary friendship with her mentor William Carlos Williams and her association with the Black Mountain Poets. As she discusses her craft in great detail, she gives special attention to diction, line lengths, versification, and choice of subject matter. Students of American culture and readers of American poetry will be delighted by this collection of the personal views of one of the century's best poets.

Jewel Spears Brooker , a professor of English at Eckerd College, is the author of Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism, coauthor of Reading The Waste Land': Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation, and editor of Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays. ... Read more

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Essential --
For those who want a better understanding and feel for Denise Levertov, and her aesthetics as a writer and poetess, this is essential.The range of interviews cover the period 1963-1995, so one is given a broad and detailed view of her evolution, and the evolution of her views, which latter remained admirably consistent.
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Wonderful
This text includes two of my favorite Denise Levertov poems, "For the New Year, 1981" and "Writing in the Dark."Included in this volume are poinant, beautiful, timeless poems that will resonate forever."Writing in the Dark" is a wonderful poem for students of any age.I read it aloud to my college students and you could hear a pin drop.Students also identify with it in regard to their own journal entry writing. ... Read more

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Life in the Forest is a thematic grouping of exquisitely crafted lyrics, which are deeply reverent for language and life, that invites internal association from poem to poem and section to section. Published in 1978 this is her most important work produced during the 70s.
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