Denise Levertov était une poète renommée pour son engagement perspicace à la fois dans le quotidien et le politique. Ses premières œuvres étaient marquées par le lyrisme et l'accent mis sur l'expérience personnelle, tandis que sa poésie ultérieure répondait puissamment aux bouleversements sociaux et politiques de son temps. Levertov tissait magistralement l'intime et le public, utilisant souvent des images concrètes pour transmettre de profondes postures émotionnelles et politiques. Ses vers explorent des thèmes d'amour, de perte, de foi et d'injustice sociale avec une honnêteté et une urgence inébranlables, faisant d'elle une voix significative de la littérature contemporaine.
This counter-cultural collection of American verse fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. Contributors include: Olson; Duncan; Creeley; Guest; Ashbery; Ginsberg; Kerouac; Levertov; O'Hara; Snyder; and Schuyler.
Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation, sexual intimacy, and childbirth to caretaking, household rituals, and death. These writings represent a healing vision of the sacred that emerges from the particular consciousness of women-a vision that partakes of the world of earth and flesh.
Life in the Forest is Denise Levertov’s first major collection since the publication in 1975 of The Freeing of the Dust, winner of the Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize, and is her eleventh book with New Directions, in a connection of nearly twenty years’ standing. Ms. Levertov’s work holds that tenuous yet inspiring ground between reflection and discourse. The dynamics of this sensitive balance is pointed up in Life in the Forest by a thematic grouping which invites internal association from poem to poem and section to section. “The poems I had been moving towards,” she explains, “were impelled by two forces: first, a recurring need…to vary a habitual lyric mode; not to abandon it, by any means, but from time to time explore more expansive means; and second, the decision to try to avoid over use of the autobiographical, the dominant first-person singular of so much American poetry—good and bad—of recent years.”
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations.From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.Other poets Sylvia PlathJames MerrillAmy clampittJorie GrahamW. S. MerwinCharles SimicAllen GinsbergFrank O'HaraAnne SextonRobert CreeleySharon OldsMary OliverRobert PinskyMark StrandDenise LevertovRichard WilburMay SwensonMichael PalmerMark DotyYusef Komunyakaa
Denise Levertov’s Candles in Babylon evinces both the inner strength gained by a life of social commitment and the quiet wisdom born of solitude. The seventy-one poems in the book―her first full collection since Life in the Forest (1978)― are grouped into several thematic sections that explore by turns the subtleties in the shifting balance between our public and private selves, the poet’s voice ranging from the wry satire of her “Pig Dreams” sequence to the resonant grandeur of her six-part “Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus.” Behind it all is the gentle melancholy of the title poem and the poet’s vision of peace.
Výbor z básnických sbírek Collected Earlier Poems 1940–1960, The Jacob's Ladder, O Taste and See, The Sorrow Dance, Relearning the Alphabet, To Stay Alive, Footprints, The Freeing of the Dust, Life in the Forrest, Candles in Babylon a Oblique Prayers.
Englischsprachige Lyrik im Originalton und in deutscher Übersetzung
Die größte zweisprachige Lyrik-Anthologie im Originalton Wie klang Walt Whitman, als er vor über 120 Jahren sein Gedicht "America" in das Aufnahmegerät von Thomas Edison sprach? Wie klingt James Joyce, der sein unsprechbares Gedicht aus "Finnegan's Wake" liest? Oder der mikrofonscheue Samuel Beckett, der ein Gedicht aus "Watt" vorträgt? "The Poets' Collection" versammelt sie 94 englischsprachige Lyrikerinnen und Lyriker, seltene Sprachaufnahmen, die in mehrjähriger Recherche zusammengetragen wurden. Ein Kaleidoskop, eine zeitliche wie geographische Reise durch das letzte Jahrhundert wie durch die englischsprachige Welt. Die Übersetzungen werden von der ersten Riege an Schauspielern gelesen, die neu gedichteten Übertragungen von den angesehensten Lyrikern und Übersetzern. Mit Gedichten von Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling , Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound , H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, Edith Sitwell, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald Macleish, Dorothy Parker, E. E. Cummings, Robert Ranke Graves, Louise Bogan, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Louis Zukofsky, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Elizabeth Bishop, John Cage, Karl Shapiro, Delmore Schwartz, Muriel Rukeyser, Dylan Thomas, James Laughlin, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Richard Wilbur, Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Michael Hamburger, Kenneth Koch, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Charles Tomlinson, John Ashbery, W. S.
