Devotion: A Memoir

by Miriam Levine

To Miriam Levine, “devotion” implies love and self-creation; to her mother’s generation, it meant martyrdom and self-denial. The domain of this memoir is the interval between those attitudes. Devotion is the expression of a sensibility that trusts the physical―a facet of women’s existence that is at once ennobling and primary, transcendent and spiritual. Affirming her deep connection to people, Levine draws from a rich expanse of memories, misgivings, epiphanies, and associations to tell of the adventures and dangers of her emergence as a woman writer.

252 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1993

Reviews

[Bret A · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had the pleasure of having a few writing seminars with Dr. Levine in college, and this came out at the time and I found it spellbinding. As it touched on her own college experience of discovering the literary world and blossoming into an adult. Very poetic.