Oblique prayers : new poems with 14 translations from Jean Joubert

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    • Levertov, Denise
    • Joubert, Jean

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Oblique prayers : new poems with 14 translations from Jean Joubert

Denise Levertov

(A New Directions paperbook, NDP 578)(A New Directions book)

New Directions, 1984

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Oblique Prayers is arranged in four thematic sections that, taken together, work toward a mature philosophy in equal harmony with public activism and private reflection. A personal mood links the poems of "Decipherings." In "Prisoners," the poet addresses the continuing horrors of our dark time: genocide, imperialism, impending nuclear holocaust--human degradation in brutal political guise. Levertov is an accomplished translator. With "Fourteen Poems by Jean Joubert," she introduces English-speaking readers to a contemporary French poet whose work is remarkably akin to her own. "Of God and of the Gods," the final section of the book, is informed by a transcendent lyricism that can equate in a breath "a day of spring, a needle's eye."

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