The Washington Post, January 6th, 1998
Denise Levertov, who died Dec. 20 at 73, was one of the stars in the late '60s of a conference at the University of Maryland on "Poetry and the National Conscience." I remember her vividly, for while she was passionate and feisty in expressing her political sentiments, her breath-like poems were delicate, even hesitant, resonant in their emotional tightness, somehow a little distant in their confident command. That authority in her writing connected with the strength of her political commitment. She emphasized for me the critical role poets could play for the rest of us in crystallizing and ar...
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