The Freeing of the Dust
A Poetry book. I read the first half of this book years ago and then it...
In the sixty poems that comprise The Freeing of the Dust, Denise Levertov continued to explore the personal and public themes that threaded through her work during the disastrous American involvement in Indochina. Relations with family and close friends are depicted with unique poignancy as she pits the at times terrifying concrete image against her vision of the ideal. Here we have poems that speak out of the direct tragedy of war, the result of Ms. Levertov's visit to North Vietnam in the fall of 1972, while others reflect the anguish and the exultation of what she has called the 'inner/outer experience in America during the '60's and the beginning of the '70's.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 124 pages
- ISBN: 9780811205825 / 811205827
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war dissidents, the divorced, the practically in love Denise Levertov is completely convinced of her own genius. In Conversation in Moscow, the most cafe-poet piece in The Freeing of the Dust, the I is abashed (abashed!) in being perceived (alas!) by another poet as a receptacle of doubts and longings, and therefore pure. It is as if the poem is her way of saying Look at me! I am my own... I read the first half of this book years ago and then it got packed into the "not enough room in our New York apartment" stacks. I really like the flow of Levertov's language in most of the poems in this collection, although some of them do feel a little too "dense" for my reading sensibilities - a problem lying more within the reader...
