Denise Levertov\'s Poems 1960-1967 brings together all of the poetry first published in The Jacob\'s Ladder (1961), O Taste and See (1964), and The Sorrow Dance (1967).
Levertov\'s staunch antiwar stand is reflected here in such Poems as "Li.
This new compilation, beginning where her Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960 (New Directions, 1979) left off, shows both a refining of the poet\'s craft and a widening of her concerns." We are living our whole lives in a state of emergency," she wrote in 1967.
Denise Levertov\'s Poems 1960-1967 brings together all of the poetry first published in The Jacob\'s Ladder (1961), O Taste and See (1964), and The Sorrow Dance (1967)