A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov
- ISBN-10
- 0520272463
- ISBN-13
- 9780520272460
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 515
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Donna Hollenberg
Description
"The first full-length biography of British-born poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life a major voice in American poetry during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on exhaustive archival reserach of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Krolik Hollneberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Korlik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both a woman and an artist, and the dynamic world she inhabited"--Front jacket flap.
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