Denise Levertov Poems 1960-1967

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors and publishers of magazines and aniholoeies in which some of the poems in this collection originally appeared: Agenda (London), Angel Hair, Arts & Science, Arts ir Society, Beloit Poetru Journal, Big Table, Brown Paper, Burning Deck, The Catholic Worker, Chelsea, Chicago Choice, The Chicago Review, Damascus Road, Emerson Review, Fubbalo, Genesis West, Granta (England), Hanging Loose, Harper’s, Harper’s Bazaar, The Harvard Advocate, Hip Pocket Poems, The Hudson Review, Jubilee, Love, Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, The Minnesota Review, The Nation, Nation Centennid, The New England Galaxy, The New Review, The New Statesman, Nomad, North American Review, Occidental Review, Open Places, Origin, Outburst (London), Paris Review, Peace News (London), Poetry, The Quarterly Review, Quarterly Review of Literature, Quixote, Rittoli Review, Sdon 13 (Guatemala), San Francisco Review, Sisters Today, Some/thirtg, Sturbridge, Slim, Synapse, Syracuse 10, Things, Vntversity of Tampa Poetry Review, Upriver, Wagner College Literary Magazine, Wild Dog.

The translations of two poems by Jules Supervielle (“‘Ce bruit de la mer…’” and “Stems”) are published by courtesy of Librairie Gallimard, Paris.

“The Breathing” was first published in Poetry in Crystal by Steuban Class. “City Psalm” first wpeared as a broadsheet in the Oyez series, Berkeley, California. “Psalm Concerning the Casde” first appeared as a broadsheet published by Walter Hamady, Detroit, Michigan.

The quotation from Tales of the Hasidim: Later Masters, Copyright 1948 by Schodcen Books, Inc., is feprinted by courtesy of the publisher. The quotation from Louis MacNeice in “Olga Poems,” from his Solstices, Copyright © 1961 by Louis MacNeice, is reprinted by courtesy of OxiFord University Press, Inc. The quotation from Rainer Maria Rilke in “Life at War,” from Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, Volume Two, 1920-1926, translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M. D. Herter Norton, Copyright 1947, 1948 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., is reprinted by permission of the publisher. The quotation from Rilke in “Joy,” from Selected Letters of Rilke, translated by R. F. C. Hull, is reprinted by permission of the publisher, Macmillan and Co., Ltd.

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Levertov, Denise, 1923-

Poems, 1960-1967.

(A New Directions Book)

Includes index.

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