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*Jack Kerouac Alley (formerly Adler Alley or Adler Place) is a one-way alleyway in Chinatown, San Francisco, California that connects Grant Avenue and Columbus Avenue, running between "Vesuvio Cafe" (255 Columbus Ave.) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "City Lights Books" (261 Columbus Ave.).

Denise Levertov 1919-1998

"Know the ship you sail on. Know its timbers. Deep the fjord waters where you sail, steep the cliffs, deep into the unknown coast goes the winding fjord." -Denise Levertov

"The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion . . elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant." -Denise Levertov

"In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms -- so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down." -Denise Levertov

"But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go." -Denise Levertov

"You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night." -Denise Levertov

"Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it." -Denise Levertov

"Every day, every day I hear
enough to fill
a year of nights with wondering." -Denise Levertov

"Political subject matter is looked upon either as an intruder into the realm of poetry, or as a matter that requires special discussion every time it occurs, and can't just be taken for granted like any other subject." -Denise Levertov

"A poetry articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record." -Denise Levertov

"Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen." -Denise Levertov

"Why, when the very fact of life itself, of the existence of anything at all, is so astounding, why -- I asked myself -- should I withhold my belief in God or in the claims of Christianity until I am able to explain to myself the discrepancy between the suffering of the innocent, on the one hand, and the assertions that God is just and merciful on the other?" -Denise Levertov

(About her mother) "She was a pointer-outer. She pointed out clouds, and she pointed out flowers. She started one off looking at things." -Denise Levertov

"Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus." -Denise Levertov

"I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals." -Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov Multimedia Directory

What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov
The Pilots, Denise Levertov (July 19, 2007) Audio	First half of an Anne Waldman class on women writers from the summer of 1977. Waldman focuses on the poets Sei Shonagon, Collette, Helen Adam, Denise Levertov, Sylvia Plath, Joanne Kyger, and Bernadette Mayer. Waldman plays several audio cassettes of the poets reading their own work. Audio
Second half of an Anne Waldman class on women writers from the summer of 1977. Waldman focuses on the poets Sei Shonagon, Collette, Helen Adam, Denise Levertov, Sylvia Plath, Joanne Kyger, and Bernadette Mayer. This recording begins with a continuation from the previous tape of an audio cassete with a Bernadette Mayer reading. Waldman plays another tape by Gertrude Stein, reading selections from her "Making of Americans." Audio	Denise Levertov's Making Peace Audio

Selected Poems of Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov : American Literature Web Resources	Denise Levertov: S PRESS BEATLAND	Denise Levertov: Coversations University Press of Mississippi	Denise Levertov:Daily Celebrations
"Looking, Walking, Being":Denise Levertov	Themes in Denise Levertov's Poetry: Modern American Poetry	Denise Levertov: @ Infography.Com	Denise Levertov : @ The Academy of American Poets
Denise Levertov : @ The Beat Page	Denise Levertov : Archive	Denise Levertov : Poems & Biography	Denise Levertov : @ Wikipedia
Denise Levertov : A Study Guide	Denise Levertov: @ Stanford University	Denise Levertov: Sample Poems	Denise Levertov: The American Poet from Britain:By John Nelson
Denise Levertov: @ Catharton.Com	Denise Levertov: @ Who2	Denise Levertov: @ Answers.Com	Denise Levertov : Book Jackets (Images)
`Socially committed' poet Denise Levertov dies at 74 : Obituary published in the HOUSTON CHRONICLE, December 30, 1997	Denise Levertov: Online Poems	The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes : Denise Levertov	Denise Levertov @ Modern American Poetry
Denise Levertov Papers Washington University in St. Louis	Denise Levertov @ InfoPlease.Com	Denise Levertov Selected Poems	Denise Levertov Poems & Links
		Denise Levertov Selected Poems	Denise Levertov More Selected Poems
Denise Levertov Interviewed by Sybil Estess	Denise Levertov @ Encyclopedia Britannica Online	Denise Levertov @ Encyclopedia.Com	Levertov's Final Interview A Poet's Valediction by Nicholas O'Connell
Levertov's Speech for a Rally at the University of Massachusetts Amherst April 15, 1970	On Denise Levertov's Vietnam Poetry James F. Mersmann	Denise Levertov On "Life at War" Paul Breslin	Denise Levertov On "Oh Taste and See" Audrey T. Rodgers
Denise Levertov On "The Ache of Marriage" Modern American Poetry	Denise Levertov On The "Olga Poems"	Denise Levertov On "What Were They Like?" Audrey T. Rodgers	Denise Levertov Perspectives in American Literature
Denise Levertov Poems	Denise Levertov Poems	Denise Levertov @ Poets & Writers	Denise Levertov A Tribute by Robert Creeley
Denise Levertov Quotes	Denise Levertov: Testimonies of the lived life @ FindArticles.Com