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...Denise Levertov is probably the best young poet in America today. She strives for technical mastery; she tries to make her poetry musical, she perceives the minute and the macrocosmic aspects of our lives. She makes us aware and she makes us respond...
...Miss Levertov's most recent volume of poetry, The Jacob's Ladder, shows a preoccupation with the problem of communication. Not only is this her major theme, but she also sees communication as her primary duty as a poet. Good poetry, she says in "A Common Ground...
Perhaps one mark of the great great poet is the ability to communicate effectively without being literally comprehensible. When Miss Levertov writes, in "Night on Hatchet Cove...
...collection provides a striking contrast to "During the Eichman Trial." "A Solitude" dissects a fleeting emotion: the poet sees a blind man, and is overcome with a feeling of "strange joy/to gaze my fill at a stranger's face." It is a remarkable poem, and it illustrates Miss Levertov's talent to perceive and see meaning in the seemingly inconsequential aspects of our lives...