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Article: Linguistic versus organic, sfumato versus chiaroscuro: some aesthetic differences between Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan.
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- Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
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- September 22, 2005
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THE publication of The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov has brought to the light a record of great historical, poetic, and personal interest. Through the numerous letters that comprise this extraordinary correspondence, the reader can enjoy a privileged and unique perspective on what was going on in the arts and politics in America during the second half of the twentieth century. As Adrienne Rich points out in "Poetic Dialogue," a legacy of this value was possible thanks to a cheap, reliable, and highly efficient U.S. Postal Service. Letters would go back and forth from East Coast to West Coast (where Levertov and Duncan lived respectively) in just a matter of ...
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