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Work InformationEvening Train (A New Directions, No. 750) by Denise Levertov
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Published in 1992, the collection of poetry Evening Train shows the varied passions of Denise Levertov. The first poem "Settling" indicates that the poet has gone through a major transition. Born in London, she has moved to Seattle and is struck by the beauty and grayness of her new scenery. She takes the reader on this journey of transition in 8 different sections covering themes such as love, loss, and war. Levertov is a prolific poet with over 21 collections of free verse poetry at the date of this publication. Known for playing with spacing and forms she crafts a picture of the spaces she sees in her mind and memory. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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"Evening Train, Denise Levertov's new collection of poetry, is her twenty-first book with New Directions and one of her best. It shows Levertov at her most moving and musical, impressive and meditative, addressing the nature of faith, the imperiled beauty of the natural world (her new home in the Northwest brings mountains, herons, eagles), the horrors of the Gulf War, the pain and tenderness of love. What is remarkable throughout is the precision of her craft and her presence of mind: "Levertov's gift for detail," as the Village Voice noted, "is matched by the way she can make yearnings and ideas seem almost physical, as if she held them in the palm of her hand." Welling up through these poems is longing: longing for peace, for the survival of her cherished earth, for love, for the experience of the divine which comes like "a strain of music heard/then lost, then heard again." Contemplative, personal, universal, the poems reveal in themselves depth after depth."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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