The Blue Rim of Memory | What Do I Read Next?

Editor Christopher MacGowan collected The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams and published them in 1998. The correspondences cover Levertov’s first few years in New York City and her two years in Mexico, and they reveal a coming-of-age as she grows from a worshipful student writing to her mentor into Williams’s self-confident colleague in the field of poetry.

Upon her death, Levertov left a notebook containing forty finished poems that show the poet’s creative genius active right up until the end. This Great Unknowing: Last Poems was...

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