Poetry Month Books & Bites: Denise Levertov

At Books and Bites on Monday, April 10th at 11:00 AM in the Assembly Room of the Belmont Public Library, librarian Miriam MacNair will speak on the life and work of poet Denise Levertov, focusing on The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov and on two biographies–Denise Levertov:  A Poet‘s Life by Dana Greene and A Poet‘s Revolution:  The Life of Denise Levertov by Donna Krolik Hollenberg.

Born in England in 1923, Denise Levertov emigrated in 1948 to the United States.  She published her first book of poetry in England at the age of twenty-three, but it was not until she moved to the United States that she found her poetic voice, helped by poets William Carlos Williams, Robert Duncan, and Robert Creeley.  Levertov was acclaimed by Kenneth Rexroth in The New York Times as “the most subtly skillful poet of her generation.”