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Full Title

Oblique Prayers Poetry
Author(s)

Denise Levertov
Edition
ISBN

9780811221894, 9780811209090
Publisher

New Directions
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Over the years, Denise Levertov’s poetry has moved ever more deeply into the realm of meditation, while yet speaking with the familiar voice of “the poet in the world.” Oblique Prayers is arranged in four thematic sections that, taken together, work toward a mature philosophy in equal harmony with public activism and private reflection. A personal mood links the poems of “Decipherings.” In “Prisoners,” the poet addresses the continuing horrors of our dark time: genocide, imperialism, impending nuclear holocaust––human degradation in brutal political guise. Levertov is an accomplished translator. With “Fourteen Poems by Jean Joubert,” she introduces English-speaking readers to a contemporary French poet whose work is remarkably akin to her own. “Of God and of the Gods,” the final section of the book, is informed by a transcendent lyricism that can equate in a breath “a day of spring, a needle’s eye.”

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