Denise Levertov - interviewed by Henry Lyman for Poems to a Listener (1984 series)

 

Reading from Candles in Babylon, Denise Levertov discusses the threat of nuclear war and its psychological effect on adults and on children: “I’ve heard of a child, who, when asked what he was going to do when he grew up, said, ‘But I’m not going to grow up.’”