Denise Levertov Knihy
Denise Levertovová byla básnířkou, která se proslavila svým pronikavým pohledem na každodenní život a politické otázky. Její raná díla se vyznačovala lyričností a soustředěním na osobní zkušenosti, zatímco pozdější tvorba ostře reagovala na společenské a politické nepokoje své doby. Levertovová mistrně propojovala intimní s veřejným, často využívala konkrétní obrazy k vyjádření hlubokých emocionálních a politických postojů. Její poezie zkoumá témata lásky, ztráty, víry a společenské nespravedlnosti s neochvějnou upřímností a naléhavostí, což z ní činí významný hlas moderní literatury.
Life in the Forest is Denise Levertov’s first major collection since the publication in 1975 of The Freeing of the Dust, winner of the Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize, and is her eleventh book with New Directions, in a connection of nearly twenty years’ standing. Ms. Levertov’s work holds that tenuous yet inspiring ground between reflection and discourse. The dynamics of this sensitive balance is pointed up in Life in the Forest by a thematic grouping which invites internal association from poem to poem and section to section. “The poems I had been moving towards,” she explains, “were impelled by two forces: first, a recurring need…to vary a habitual lyric mode; not to abandon it, by any means, but from time to time explore more expansive means; and second, the decision to try to avoid over use of the autobiographical, the dominant first-person singular of so much American poetry—good and bad—of recent years.”
Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation, sexual intimacy, and childbirth to caretaking, household rituals, and death. These writings represent a healing vision of the sacred that emerges from the particular consciousness of women-a vision that partakes of the world of earth and flesh.
