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Born in October 24, 1923 / Died in December 20, 1997 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • The Double Image, Cresset (Philadelphia, PA), 1946, reprinted Brooding Heron Press (Waldron Island, WA), 1991.
  • Here and Now, City Lights (San Francisco, CA), 1957.
  • 5 Poems, White Rabbit Press (San Francisco, CA), 1958.
  • Overland to the Islands, J. Williams (Highlands, NC), 1958.
  • With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1959.
  • The Jacob's Ladder, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1961.
  • O Taste and SEE: New Poems, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1964.
  • City Psalm, Oyez (Kensington, CA), 1964.
  • Psalm concerning the Castle, Perishable Press (Mount Horeb, WI), 1966.
  • The Sorrow Dance, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1967.
  • (With Kenneth Rexroth and William Carlos Williams) Penguin Modern Poets 9, Penguin (London, England), 1967.
  • A Tree Telling of Orpheus, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1968.
  • A Marigold from North Vietnam, Albondocani Press-Ampersand (Everett, WA), 1968.
  • Three Poems, Perishable Press (Mount Horeb, WI), 1968.
  • The Cold Spring and Other Poems, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Embroideries, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1969.
  • Relearning the Alphabet, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1970.
  • Summer Poems 1969, Oyez (Kensington, CA), 1970.
  • A New Year's Garland for My Students, MIT 1969-1970, Perishable Press (Mount Horeb, WI), 1970.
  • To Stay Alive, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1971.
  • Footprints, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1972.
  • The Freeing of the Dust, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1975.
  • Chekhov on the West Heath, Woolmer/Brotherston (Revere, PA), 1977.
  • Modulations for Solo Voice, Five Trees Press (San Francisco, CA), 1977.
  • Life in the Forest, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1978.
  • Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1979.
  • Pig Dreams: Scenes from the Life of Sylvia, Countryman Press (Woodstock, VT), 1981.
  • Wanderer's Daysong, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1981.
  • Candles in Babylon, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1982.
  • Poems, 1960-1967, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1983.
  • Two Poems, William B. Ewert (Concord, NH), 1983.
  • Oblique Prayers: New Poems with Fourteen Translations from Jean Joubert, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1984.
  • El Salvador: Requiem and Invocation, William B. Ewert (Concord, NH), 1984.
  • The Menaced World, William B. Ewert (Concord, NH), 1984.
  • Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books (Newcastle upon Tyne, England), 1986.
  • Breathing the Water, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1987.
  • Poems, 1968-1972, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1987.
  • (With Peter Brown) Seasons of Light, Rice University Press (Houston, TX), 1988.
  • A Door in the Hive, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1989.
  • Evening Train, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1992.
  • Sands of the Well, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1996.
  • Batterers, Janus Press (West Burke, VT), 1996.
  • The Life around Us: Selected Poems on Nature, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1997.
  • The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1997.
  • This Great Unknowing: Last Poems, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1999.
  • Poems: 1972-1982, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 2001.

OTHER

  • (Translator and editor, with Edward C. Dimock, Jr.) In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1967.
  • (Editor) Out of the War Shadow: An Anthology of Current Poetry, War Resisters League, 1967.
  • In the Night: A Story, Albondocani Press (New York, NY), 1968.
  • (Contributor of translations) Jules Supervielle, Selected Writings, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1968.
  • (Translator from French) Eugene Guillevic, Selected Poems, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1969.
  • The Poet in the World (essays), New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1973.
  • Light up the Cave (essays), New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1981.
  • Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus, William B. Ewert (Concord, NH), 1981.
  • (Translator, with others from Bulgarian) William Meredith, editor, Poets of Bulgaria, Unicorn Press (Greensboro, NC), 1985.
  • (Translator from French) Jean Joubert, Black Iris, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1988.
  • (Translator, with others from French) Alain Bosquet, No Matter No Fact, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1988.
  • El paisaje interior (essays translated to Spanish by Patricia Gola), Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala (Tlaxcala, Mexico), 1990.
  • (Translator) Jean Joubert, White Owl and Blue Mouse, Zoland Books (Cambridge, MA), 1990.
  • New & Selected Essays, New Directions (New York, NY), 1992.
  • Tesserae: Memories and Suppositions (autobiographical essays), New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Conversations with Denise Levertov, edited by Jewel Spears Brooker, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 1998.
  • The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams, edited by Christopher MacGowan, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1998.
  • (Editor and author of foreword) John E. Smelcer, Songs from an Outcast: Poems, American Indian Studies Center, University of California (Los Angeles, CA), 2000.

Also author of Lake, Mountain, Moon, 1990. Contributor to New American Poetry, Grove (New York, NY), 1960; Parable, Myth, and Language, Church Society for College Work (Cambridge, MA), 1967; The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets, Bloodaxe Books (Newcastle upon Tyne, England), 1984; and American Poetry Observed: Poets and Their Work, University of Illinois Press (Chicago, IL), 1984. Contributor of poetry and essays to numerous periodicals. Poetry editor, Nation, 1961-62, and Mother Jones, 1976-78. Levertov's main manuscript collection is housed at the Green Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Other collections are housed in the following locations: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Indiana University, Bloomington; Fales Library, New York University, New York; Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Brown University, Providence, RI; University of Connecticut, Storrs; Columbia University, New York, NY; and State University of New York at Stony Brook.