The Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Nature

ISBN-13: 9780811213523 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997

D Levertov

Opis

Yet in this selection of sixty-two poems chosen by the author celebration and fear of loss are necessarily conjoined. The Life Around Usshows us both the eternal renewal of the natural world and its imperilment: "In these last few decades of the 20th century it has become ever clearer to all thinking people that although we humans are a part of nature ourselves, we have become, in multifarious ways, an increasingly destructive element within it, shaking and breaking 'the great web' perhaps irremediably. "