Tesserae

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Tesserae, the small individual pieces of glass or stone that make up a mosaic, make an apt title for this series of memoirs by Denise Levertov. Rather than being a completed autobiography, these collected memoirs are fragments of an unfinished mosaic. Each of the twenty-seven pieces of Tesserae explores a memory vital to her life; each is complete in itself and set here chronologically. And, as in any good mosaic, each piece reflects at different angles, creating a play of light which gives this self-portrait its living complexity.
Born in 1923, Denise Levertov grew up in llford, Essex, where she was educated at home by tier Welsh mother and by her father, a Russian Jew who settled in England after the First World War and became an Anglican priest. Tesserae draws on the extraordinary lives of her parents as well as on her own memories.
She moved to America in 1948. During the next three decades she became 'America's foremost contemporary woman poet' and 'the best contemporary... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Tesserae, the small individual pieces of glass or stone that make up a mosaic, make an apt title for this series of memoirs by Denise Levertov. Rather than being a completed autobiography, these collected memoirs are fragments of an unfinished mosaic. Each of the twenty-seven pieces of Tesserae explores a memory vital to her life; each is complete in itself and set here chronologically. And, as in any good mosaic, each piece reflects at different angles, creating a play of light which gives this self-portrait its living complexity.
Born in 1923, Denise Levertov grew up in llford, Essex, where she was educated at home by tier Welsh mother and by her father, a Russian Jew who settled in England after the First World War and became an Anglican priest. Tesserae draws on the extraordinary lives of her parents as well as on her own memories.
She moved to America in 1948. During the next three decades she became 'America's foremost contemporary woman poet' and 'the best contemporary political poet America has'. She worked also as a political activist, campaigning for civil rights, and against the Vietnam War, the Bomb, and US-backed régimes in Latin America.
Denise Levertov's Selected Poems (1986), recently reissued by Bloodaxe, covers all her collections up to Candles in Babylon. Her later collections are all available in Britain from Bloodaxe: Oblique Prayers (1986), Breathing the Water (1987), and A Door in the Hive and Evening Train, published as one book in 1992.
FRONT COVER: DENISE LEVERTOV (LONDON, CIRCA 194 7-5 0) BACKGROUND: FOSSIL WOOD (SINCLAIR STAMMERS I SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)
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