Levertov, Denise (1923-1997) - Chekhov on the West Heath

Andes, New York : Woolmer / Brotherson Ltd.1977. Green and white marbled wrappers, upper cover title label, 8vo, [16pp.]. Numbered 136 of 200 copies signed by the author on colophon. Levertov came to the United States in 1948, after marrying American writer Mitchell Goodman, and began developing the style that was to make her an internationally respected American poet. Some critics maintain that her first American poetry collection, Here and Now, contains vestiges of the sentimentalism that characterized her first book, but for some, Here and Now displays Levertov's newly found American voice. Rexroth, for one, insisted in his 1961 collection of essays titled Assays that "the Schwarmerei and lassitude are gone. Their place has been taken by a kind of animal grace of the word, a pulse like the footfalls of a cat or the wingbeats of a gull. It is the intense aliveness of an alert domestic love—the wedding of form and content. What more do you want of poetry? You can't ask much more." Gould claimed that by the time With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads was published in 1959, Levertov was "regarded as a bona fide American poet. .

See/Hide Conditions of Sale

Following conditions of sale apply:
Terms of Sale

Payment may be made by credit card or bank transfer in various currencies.
Returns allowed for any misdescribed item. Otherwise, there is a 20% return fee. Detailed trade terms at www.art-books.com