![]() So I will discuss them alphabetically, with a little weaving back and forth.Ĭarolyn Forche's The Country Between Us (Harper & Row, $11.50 paperback, $5.95) has already won the Lamont Prize, and will win others. That is her phrase, "lyrical and engaged," which she has applied to Carolyn Forch,e, who is doing, Levertov says, "the kind of work I want to do." Here are remarkable books by Forch,e and Levertov, Josephine Jacobsen, Marge Piercy and Adrienne Rich, five distinguished women whom one would not care to rank. What, to a reader, is more thrilling than to discover a young, spirited, beautiful poet whose work brims with feeling and social commitment, poetry "both lyrical and engaged"? It may be a poet who is all of these, except young in years, who has 11 books of poetry-many of which are in print, thanks to New Directions-Denise Levertov. ![]()
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