Relearning Denise Levertov’s Alphabet: War, Flesh, and the Intimacy of Otherness
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: The essay reads and re-evaluates Denise Levertov’s poetry on the Vietnam War, including Relearning the Alphabet (1970), To Stay Alive (1971) and Footprints (1972). Levertov theorizes how the body, however inscribed by the writing of the culture, shares a certain universality of flesh, and it can be used to locate oneself and to find the meaning of another in oneself. With reference to Charles Olson and the Black Mountain poets, the essay, then, explores how Levertov attends to the lost fact of the body, forms that read, hear, and touch the social and historical fibre in the apparently isolated, eternal presence. Levertov is interested in the possibility of compassion, intimacy, and human suffering, as she envisions, for example, the body of the Vietnamese child connected to her psyche and her body. With an acute sense of worldliness and without accepting a clear division between the public and the private, Levertov’s poetry and poetics patiently seek an embodied self and an open, flexible vision of language.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".