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Denise Levertov American poet and activist died in December 1997 at the ageof 74. This book contains some twenty previously uncollected interviewsconducted between the early 1960s and the middle of the 1990s. They are focusedprimarily 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 timeof the first of these interviews. She was past seventy and an icon of Americanculture at the time of the most recent.Levertov was born in England of a Welsh mother and a Russianborn Anglicanpriest who had converted from Judaism. She first made her mark as a poet in thelate 1950s. Her poetry was recognized as distinctive and indeed brilliant. Theearliest interviews are focused on her poetic craft and on her youth inEngland her education her marriage to an American and her postwar move toNew York. In 1955 she became a U.S. citizen and in the 1960s and 1970s she andher husband Mitchell Goldman were among the most visible and vocal opponents ofthe Vietnam War. After the war she retained her interest in social andpolitical issues and continued over the years to write deeply moving poetryabout her life and about contemporary events.The interviews in which Levertov discusses her craft constitute an importantdocument on American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. Shetalks of her legendary friendship with her mentor William Carlos Williams andher association with the Black Mountain Poets. As she discusses her craft ingreat detail she gives special attention to diction line lengthsversification and choice of subject matter. Students of American culture andreaders ofAmerican poetry will be delighted by this collection of the personalview of one of the centurys best poets. «
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