Tesserae: Memories and Suppositions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811212922)

Tesserae, the small individual pieces of glass or stone that make up a mosaic, is an apt title for this series of memoirs by Denise Levertov.

Rather than a completed autobiography, these collected memoirs are, for the author, fragments "composed from time to time between poems." Each of the twenty-seven pieces of Tesserae explores a memory vital to Levertov's life; each is complete in itself and set here chronologically. And, as in any good mosaic, every piece reflects light at different angles, giving this self-portrait its living complexity. Tesserae differs for the first time the unique memoirs or "a poet who may just be the finest writing in English today" (Kirkus Reviews).

Author: Denise Levertov
ISBN-10: 0811212920
ISBN-13: 9780811212922
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/17/1995
Pages: 148
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.65w x 0.92d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/1995 pg. 1468
Library Journal 04/15/1995 pg. 80
Publishers Weekly 03/13/1995 pg. 55
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/1995 pg. 300