Levertov, Denise - Diane Wakoski (essay date 1988)
Diane Wakoski (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "Song of Herself," in The Women's Review of Books, Vol. V, No. 5, February, 1988, pp. 7-8.
[Wakoski is an American poet and educator whose verse collections include The George Washington Poems (1967), Virtuoso Literature for Two and Four Hands (1975), and The Collected Greed, Parts 1-13 (1984). In the following review of Breathing the Water, Wakoski finds that much of Levertov's work reflects a "linking of body and soul through God" while it also recognizes the attraction and danger of the natural world.]
Others will speak of her spirit's tendrils reaching
almost palpably into the world;
but I will remember her body's
unexpected beauty
seen in the fragrant redwood sauna …
American poetry, like American culture, has manifested from the beginning an unlikely combination of the material and the spiritual. We are pragmatists,...
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