The Essex Muse: Denise Levertov and Adrian Schoell

The ghosts of Pirgo

We think of Denise Levertov as an American poet. She moved to the United States in 1947, became an American citizen in 1955 and is associated with the Black Mountain Poets, with Charles Olsen and William Carlos Williams. She was a close friend of Robert Duncan, too, and in fact it was, I think, via an essay by Thom Gunn on Duncan that I first encountere…