Oblique Prayers: Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811209090)

Oblique Prayers is arranged in four thematic sections that, taken together, work toward a mature philosophy in equal harmony with public activism and private reflection. A personal mood links the poems of "Decipherings." In "Prisoners," the poet addresses the continuing horrors of our dark time: genocide, imperialism, impending nuclear holocaust--human degradation in brutal political guise. Levertov is an accomplished translator. With "Fourteen Poems by Jean Joubert," she introduces English-speaking readers to a contemporary French poet whose work is remarkably akin to her own. "Of God and of the Gods," the final section of the book, is informed by a transcendent lyricism that can equate in a breath "a day of spring, a needle's eye."

Author: Denise Levertov
ISBN-10: 0811209091
ISBN-13: 9780811209090
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 10/17/1984
Pages: 87
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.24w x 0.29d