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British-born Naturalised American Poet
: A British-born naturalised American poet. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #6 on Political Struggle Quotes >> War and Arms
“"White phosphorus, white phosphorus,
mechanical snow,
where are you falling?""I am falling impartially on roads and roofs,
on bamboo thickets, on people.
My name recalls rich seas on rainy nights,
each drop that hits the surface eliciting
luminous response from a million algae.
My name is a whisper of sequins. Ha!
Each of them is a disk of fire,
I am the snow that burns.
I fall
wherever men send me to fall --
but I prefer flesh, so smooth, so dense:
I decorate it in black, and seek
the bone."”
Source: "Life At War," by Denise Levertov, included in The Sorrow Dance in 1967. Quoted from The Portable Sixties Reader, edited by Ann Charters, a Penguin Classics, page 127. Page 127.
"Life At War," by Denise Levertov, included in The Sorrow Dance in 1967. Quoted from The Portable Sixties Reader, edited by Ann Charters, a Penguin Classics, page 127.
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