"Relearn the Alphabet"
LEVERTOV, Denise. Here And Now. San Francisco: City Lights Books. 1957.
Small 4to. Original card wrappers, both covers with green template surrounding white cream block with green lettering; pp. [ii], 5-32; significant browning and slight white staining to front cover; stains to back cover and rubbed spine; some internal markings from pp. 29-32; otherwise very good.
First edition, with the intimate inscription from the author: "For my dearest Bett with love from Denny, March '57".
An American poet, essayist and political activist, at the age of 12, Levertov sent a collection of her poems to T.S. Eliot who responded with a two-page letter of encouragement. She would publish her first poem at 17. Here and Now was Denise Levertov's first collection of poetry and demonstrates the influence of The Black Mountain Poets and William Carlos Williams.
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