Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions

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Author: Denise Levertov Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (1996) Tesserae, the small individual pieces of glass or stone that make up a mosaic, is an apt title for t his series of memoirs by Denise Levertov. Rather than being a completed autobiography, these collected memoirs are, for the author, fragments of an unfinished mosaic. Each of the twenty-seven pieces of Tesserae explores a memory vital to Levertov's life; each is complete in itself and set here chronologically. And, as in any good mosaic, each piece reflects at different angles creating a play of light which gives this self-portrait its living complexity. Show more