The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov

Author: Denise Levertov

Editor: Paul Lacey

Introduction: Robert Creeley

Publisher: New Directions (2003)

Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry―the work of a poet who, as Kenneth Rexroth put it, "more than anyone, led the redirection of American poetry . . . to the mainstream of world literature."