Denise Levertov: Poems Denise Levertov

Primary works

The Double Image (London: The Cresset Press, 1946)

Here and Now (San Francisco, Calif.: City Lights Pocket Book Shop, The Pocket Poets Series: Number Six, 1956)

Overland to the Islands (Highlands, N.C.: Jonathan Williams, Publisher, 1958)

With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1959)

The Jacob's Ladder (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1961)

O Taste and See: New Poems (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1964)

The Sorrow Dance (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1967)

Relearning the Alphabet (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1970)

To Stay Alive (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1971) ISBN 0811200876

Footprints (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1972) ISBN 0811204553

The Freeing of the Dust (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1975) ISBN 978-0811205818

Life in the Forest (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1978) ISBN 978-0811206921

Collected Earlier Poems 1940–1960 (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1979) ISBN 978-0811207171

Pig Dreams: Scenes from the Life of Sylvia (Woodstock, Vt.: The Countryman Press, 1981), Pastels by Liebe Coolidge ISBN 978-0914378822

Candles in Babylon (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1982) ISBN 978-0811208307

Poems 1960–1967 (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1983) ISBN 0-8112-0859-1

Oblique Prayers: New Poems (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1984) ISBN 0-8112-0909-1

Poems 1968–1972 (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1987) ISBN 978-0811210041

Breathing the Water (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1987) ISBN 978-0-8112-1027-0

A Door in the Hive (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1989) ISBN 0-8112-1119-3

Evening Train (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1992) ISBN 978-0-8112-1220-5

A Door in the Hive / Evening Train (1993) ISBN 1-85224-159-4

Sands of the Well (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1996) ISBN 0-8112-1361-7

This Great Unknowing: Last Poems (New York: New Directions Publishing, 2000), With a Note on the Text by Paul A. Lacey ISBN 978-0-8112-1458-2

Poems 1972–1982 (New York: New Directions Publishing, New Directions Paperbook NDP913, 2001) ISBN 0-8112-1469-9

Collections

• "The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 11/2013), Edited and Annotated by Paul A. Lacey and Anne Dewey, with an Introduction by Eavan Boland, Afterword by Paul A. Lacey & Anne Dewey ISBN 978-0-8112-2173-3
• The Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Nature (1997) ISBN 0-8112-1352-8
• Making Peace (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New Directions Bibelot NDP1023, 2005), Edited, with an Introduction, by Peggy Rosenthal
• The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes (1997) ISBN 978-0-8112-1354-7
• Selected Poems (UK: Bloodaxe Books, 1986). ISBN 0-906427-85-1

This is not to be confused with the 2002 US volume of the same title. From Neil Astley, of Bloodaxe Books:

"Selected Poems (1986) had no editor as such: the book was edited by Bloodaxe Books in consultation with Denise Levertov, with helpful suggestions made by Linda Anderson and Cynthia Fuller. It was originated by Bloodaxe Books for publication in the UK and there was no corresponding US edition. It had no introduction or preface."

• Selected Poems (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2002), preface by Robert Creeley, edited with an afterword by Paul A. Lacey
• New Selected Poems (UK: Bloodaxe Books, 2003), preface by Robert Creeley, edited with an afterword by Paul A. Lacey

The latter two volumes are identical in contents. From Neil Astley, of Bloodaxe Books:

"New Selected Poems was first published in the US by New Directions in 2002 under the title Selected Poems, and published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK in 2003 under the title New Selected Poems to avoid confusion with the previous UK edition called Selected Poems. It was edited with an afterword by Paul A. Lacy and has a preface by Robert Creeley. So it is the same book as New Directions' Selected Poems."

Prose

• The Poet in the World (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1973) ISBN 0811204928
• Light Up the Cave (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1981) ISBN 978-0811208130
• New & Selected Essays (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1992) ISBN 0-8112-1218-1
• Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995) ISBN 0-8112-1337-4

Letters

• The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams, Edited by Christopher MacGowan (1998).
• The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004), Edited by Robert J. Bertholf & Albert Gelpi.

Translations

• Black Iris: Selected Poems by Jean Joubert (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1988), Translated from the French by Denise Levertov ISBN 978-1556590153
• In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1967), Translated by Edward C. Dimock, Jr. and Denise Levertov, with an introduction and notes by Edward Dimock, Jr., Illustrated by Anju Chaudhuri
• No Matter No Fact (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, February 1988), Alain Bosquet, Translated by Samuel Beckett, Eduard Roditi, Denise Levertov, and Alain Bosquet ISBN 978-0811210393
• Selected Poems by Eugene Guillevic (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969)
• White Owl and Blue Mouse (Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1991), Jean Joubert, Illustrations by Michel Gay ISBN 978-0944072134

Edited by Denise Levertov

• The Collected Poems of Beatrice Hawley, The (Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1989), Edited and with an Introduction by Denise Levertov ISBN 9780944072080
• Out of the War Shadow: An Anthology of Current Poetry (NY: War Resisters League, 1967), compiled and edited by Denise Levertov
• Songs from an Outcast (Los Angeles, CA: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 2000), John E. Smelcer ISBN 978-0935626452