Jose Manuel Rodríguez Herrera

Relearning the Political Alphabet: Levertov’s Language Ethics from Vietnam to the Present

This article argues that Denise Levertov’s Vietnam-era poetry develops a poetics of language ethics: a formal practice through which words are tested against bodies, suffering, agency, and moral judgment. Focusing on “During the Eichmann Trial,” “Life at War,” and “Prologue: An I...