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Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, peers such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, and mentees such as Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Susan Howe, and Tom Raworth, Creeley helped forge a new poetry that re-imagined writing for his and subsequent generations. This first-ever volume of his letters, written between 1945 and 2005, document the life, work, and times of one of our greatest writers, and represent a critical archive of the development of contemporary American poetry, as well as the changing nature of letter-writing and communication in the digital era.

POETRY / General. --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Poets, American --- Creeley, Robert, --- Creeley, Robert, -- 1926-2005 -- Correspondence. --- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence. --- allen ginsburg. --- american literature. --- american poetry. --- american poets. --- celebrated poets. --- charles olson. --- contemporary american poetry. --- correspondence. --- denise levertov. --- ed dorn. --- ezra pound. --- great writers. --- jack kerouac. --- letter collection. --- letter writing. --- literary artistry. --- literary letters. --- mentees. --- mentors. --- poems. --- robert duncan. --- stylist. --- writing.

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This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and interviews with 75 friends of Levertov, as well as on Levertov's entire opus, Donna Krolik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both woman and artist, and the dynamic world she inhabited. She charts Levertov's early life in England as the daughter of a Russian Hasidic father and a Welsh mother, her experience as a nurse in London during WWII, her marriage to an American after the war, and her move to New York City where she became a major figure in the American poetry scene. The author chronicles Levertov's role as a passionate social activist in volatile times and her importance as a teacher of writing. Finally, Hollenberg shows how the spiritual dimension of Levertov's poetry deepened toward the end of her life, so that her final volumes link lyric perception with political and religious commitment.

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This book examines the early work of William Carlos Williams in relationship to a woman's tradition of American poetry, as represented by Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser - three generations of women poets working in or directly from a modernist tradition. Linda Kinnahan traces notions of the feminine and the maternal that develop as Williams seeks to create a modern poetics. The impact of first-wave American feminism is examined through an extended analysis of Mina Loy's poetry as a source of a feminist modernism for Williams. Levertov and Fraser are discussed as poetic daughters of Williams who strive to define their voices as women and to reclaim an enabling poetic tradition. In the process, each woman's negotiations with poetic authority and tradition call into question the relationship of poetic father and daughter. Positioning Williams in relation to these three generations of Anglo-American writing within and descending from the modernist movement, the book pursues two questions: what can women poets, writing with an informed awareness of Williams teach us about his modernist poetics of contact, and just as importantly, what can they teach us about the process, for women, of constructing a writing self within a male-dominated tradition?

Authority in literature --- Autorité dans la littérature --- Gezag in de literatuur --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Influence littéraire, artistique, etc. --- Invloed (Literaire, artistieke, enz.) --- American poetry --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Poésie américaine --- Féminisme et littérature --- Femmes et littérature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Fraser, Kathleen, --- Levertov, Denise, --- Loy, Mina --- Williams, William Carlos, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Influence --- Poésie américaine --- Autorité dans la littérature --- Féminisme et littérature --- Influence littéraire, artistique, etc. --- Femmes et littérature --- United States --- 20th century --- Fraser, Kathleen --- Levertov, Denise --- Williams, William Carlos --- Influence. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Feminist poetry, American --- Authority in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lowry, Mina Gertrude --- וויליאמס, וויליאם קרלוס, --- ויליאמס, ויליאם קרלוס, --- Ṿiliʼams, Ṿiliʼam Ḳarlos, --- Levertoff, Denise, --- Goodman, Denise Levertov, --- AMERICAN POETRY --- FEMINISM AND LITERATURE --- WOMEN AND LITERATURE --- FRASER (KATHLEEN), 1937 --- -LEVERTOV (DENISE), 1923 --- -WILLIAMS (WILLIAM CARLOS), 1883-1963 --- LOY (MINA) --- INFLUENCE (LITERARY, ARTISTIC, ETC.) --- WOMEN AUTHORS --- 20th CENTURY --- HISTORY AND CRITICISM --- U.S. --- HISTORY --- 20TH CENTURY --- CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION