New & Selected Essays

ISBN-10: 0811212181
ISBN-13: 9780811212182
Category: Fiction
Pages: 266
Language: English
Published: 1992
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Author: Denise Levertov

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"Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true Poet: to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a 'spendor of that Grace to humanity.'" --World Literature Today

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