by Denise Levertov · New Directions Publishing Corporation · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780811210058
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«Poems 1968-1972» is Denise Levertov's poetry collection, published by New Directions Publishing Corporation in paperback (259 pages, in English).
Collection of poems that moves through dreams, death, courage, the soul, myths, failure, madness, hunger, nature, war, friendship and love, with a voice opposed to the Vietnam War and to the system of greed of which that war is an expression. Includes the sections Relearning the Alphabet, To Stay Alive and Footprints.
The edition includes bibliography (pp. 253-255) and index.
For poetry readers seeking an English voice engaged with its time, with poems about war, nature and personal consciousness.
Priscilla Denise Levertov was a British-born naturalised American poet. She was heavily influenced by the Black Mountain poets and by the political context of the Vietnam War, which she explored in her poetry book The Freeing of the Dust. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
