1923-1997
Denise Levertov was born and raised in England and came to the US in 1948. Her books of poetry cover six decades and include The Double Image (1946), Here and Now (1957), O Taste and See (1964), The Freeing of the Dust (1975), Breathing the Water (1987), and Sands of the Well (1996). Her essays are collected in The Poet in the World and Light Up the Cave.