{"product_id":"life-in-the-forest-9780811206938","title":"Life in the Forest","description":"\u003cem\u003eLife in the Forest\u003c\/em\u003e is Denise Levertov's first major collection since the publication in 1975 of \u003cem\u003eThe Freeing of the Dust\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eLife in the Forest\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Denise Levertov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/1978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.93h x 5.19w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811206938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLevertov, Denise:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDenise Levertov\u003c\/strong\u003e (1923-1997) was a British born American poet. She wrote and published 20 books of poetry, criticism, translations. She also edited several anthologies. Among her many awards and honors, she received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Lannan Award, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40540907634803,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":16.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_18285560-828b-444b-a1d1-9a823d63e9ec.jpg?v=1666791807","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/life-in-the-forest-9780811206938","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}