Resurrecting Denise Levertov

Rebecca Brown Calls for the Resurrection of the Late NW Poet Denise Levertov with Breathing the Waterby Rich SmithAfter her death in 1997, the poet Denise Levertov was buried just up the hill from Bruce Lee in Lake View Cemetery. The pairing has always made absolute sense to me. Levertov was a feminist poet, an environmentalist poet, an antiwar poet, but she was also a fiery pilgrim who never wanted to be known as any of those things. She also liked to shop at Elliott Bay Book Company, attend ch