In 1963, at a conference in Vancouver, there occurred the only meeting of all four of the poets who were regarded as leaders of the Black Mountain group: DL
, Robert Duncan
, Charles Olson
Literary responses
Denise Levertov
One of her poems in Origin, The Shifting, was particularly admired by Robert Duncan
, who wrote and sent to her a poem of appreciation, Letters for Denise Levertov: An A Muse Ment...
Literary responses
Denise Levertov
Duncan
replied to DL
's showing him the title-poem by tentatively identifying it as a central statement of the life-myth you speak of in your essay Myth and Poetry?
Duncan, Robert, and Denise Levertov. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Editors Bertholf, Robert J. and Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Press, 2004.
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Once the book was...
Literary responses
Denise Levertov
This provoked intense debate between DL
and Robert Duncan
. He felt impelled to tell her, I feel that revolution, politics, making history, is one of the great falsehoods—is [Blake
's] Orc in his...
Literary responses
Denise Levertov
To this volume Robert Duncan
responded, I am moved from my soul . . . by how at one entirely your saying of being is with your actual line writing now. He said he had...
Publishing
Denise Levertov
She set a high rate of production over the next few years. In 1958 came both Five Poems (with illustrations by Jess Collins
, the male partner of Robert Duncan
), published by White Rabbit Press
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Her even fuller and richer correspondence with Robert Duncan
(who was...
Textual Production
Denise Levertov
She had sent the title poem to Robert Duncan
on 26 April 1969.
Duncan, Robert, and Denise Levertov. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Editors Bertholf, Robert J. and Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Press, 2004.
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The book was published by Cape
in London the same year. The Newberry Library
in Chicago holds a calligraphic manuscript of...
This book collects ten years of forewords, personal statements, and reviews,
Burt, Stephen. “No scene could be worse”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 3, 9 Feb. 2012, pp. 29-30.
30
in which Rich continues to tease out the complex negotiations between art and social justice, the ways in which writers have shaped (or...
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Duncan, Robert, and Denise Levertov. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Editors Bertholf, Robert J. and Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Press, 2004.
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester, 1977.
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.