The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov,9780811215206

The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov

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ISBN13: 9780811215206
ISBN10: 0811215202
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-11-01
Publisher(s): New Directions
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Summary

Denise Levertov's Selected Poems delivers in a single accessible volume "one of the essential poets of our time" (Poetry Flash).

Table of Contents

Preface xiii
Robert Creeley
EARLY AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS
Listening to Distant Drums
1(1)
THE DOUBLE IMAGE (1946)
Childhood's End
1(1)
Poem (``Some are too much at home in the role of wanderer'')
2(1)
Too Easy: to Write of Miracles
3(1)
HERE AND NOW (1957)
The Earthwoman and the Waterwoman
4(1)
The Marriage
4(1)
The Marriage (II)
5(1)
Laying the Dust
5(1)
Everything that Acts Is Natural
6(1)
OVERLAND TO THE ISLANDS (1958)
Overland to the Islands
7(1)
The Instant
7(1)
Illustrious Ancestors
8(1)
Action
8(2)
Merritt Parkway
10(2)
WITH EYES AT THE BACK OF OUR HEADS (1960)
With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads
12(1)
Pleasures
13(1)
To the Snake
14(1)
Obsessions
14(1)
The Dead
15(1)
Terror
15(1)
THE JACOB'S LADDER (1961)
A Common Ground
16(3)
Come into Animal Presence
19(1)
A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England
20(2)
Three Meditations
22(3)
The Jacob's Ladder
25(1)
The Tulips
26(1)
During the Eichmann Trial: ``When We Look Up''
27(3)
O TASTE AND SEE (1964)
The Ache of Marriage
30(1)
Song for Ishtar
30(1)
Claritas
31(2)
The Secret
33(1)
September 1961
34(2)
O Taste and See
36(1)
Eros at Temple Stream
37(1)
The Stone-Carver's Poem
38(1)
The Disclosure
38(1)
About Marriage
39(1)
The Prayer
40(2)
Hypocrite Women
42(1)
In Mind
43(1)
THE SORROW DANCE (1967)
The Wings
44(2)
Joy
46(3)
Annuals
49(1)
The Mutes
50(1)
The Cat as Cat
51(1)
Living
52(1)
A Lamentation
53(1)
Olga Poems
54(8)
The Closed World
62(1)
Second Didactic Poem
62(2)
Life at War
64(1)
To Speak
65(1)
Bedtime
66(1)
RELEARNING THE ALPHABET (1970)
Relearning the Alphabet
67(10)
The Broken Sandal
77(1)
The Cold Spring
78(4)
At David's Grave
82(1)
What Wild Dawns There Were
83(1)
July 1968
84(1)
A Cloak
85(1)
A Tree Telling of Orpheus
86(5)
TO STAY ALIVE (1971)
Advent 1966
91(1)
Tenebrae
92(1)
``Staying Alive'' (excerpts)
93(1)
At the Justice Department November 15, 1969
93(1)
Gandhi's Gun (and Brecht's Vow)
94(2)
Entr'acte `Let Us Sing Unto the Lord a New Song'
96(1)
FOOTPRINTS (1972)
Love Poem
97(1)
3 a.m., September 1, 1969
98(1)
The Wanderer
98(1)
The Old King
99(1)
Memories of John Keats
100(1)
To Antonio Machado
101(1)
The Life Around Us
101(1)
THE FREEING OF THE DUST (1975)
Living Alone (I)
102(1)
Living Alone (II)
103(1)
Living Alone (III)
103(1)
Divorcing
104(1)
Libation
105(1)
Prayer for Revolutionary Love
106(1)
The Freeing of the Dust
107(1)
The Woman
108(1)
The Life of Others
109(1)
LIFE IN THE FOREST (1978)
A Woman Alone
110(2)
Chekhov on the West Heath
112(5)
The goth Year
117(1)
A Soul-Cake
118(2)
Talking to Grief
120(1)
Wedding-Ring
121(1)
CANDLES IN BABYLON (1982)
Talking to Oneself
122(2)
Poet and Person
124(1)
The Dragon-fly Mother
125(3)
Candles in Babylon
128(1)
Williams: An Essay
128(2)
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus
130(7)
Beginners
137(1)
Concurrence
138(1)
She and the Muse
139(1)
OBLIQUE PRAYERS (1984)
Decipherings
140(2)
The Avowal
142(1)
St. Peter and the Angel
143(1)
The Antiphon
144(1)
Of Being
144(1)
``... That Passeth All Understanding''
145(1)
BREATHING THE WATER (1987)
The Servant Girl at Emmaus
146(1)
``I learned that her name was Proverb''
146(1)
Hunting the Phoenix
147(1)
The Spirits Appeased
148(1)
Caedmon
149(1)
Making Peace
150(1)
During a Son's Dangerous Illness
151(1)
On a Theme from Julian's Chapter XX
152(2)
The Showings: Lady Julian of Norwich, 1342--1416)
154(7)
Variation and Reflection on a Theme by Rilke (The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem 7)
161(1)
A DOOR IN THE HIVE (1989)
Annuniciation
162(2)
Braiding
164(1)
Flickering Mind
165(1)
The Love of Morning
166(1)
Wings in the Pedlar's Pack
167(1)
St. Thomas Didymus
168(3)
The Life of Art
171(1)
To Rilke
172(1)
A Traveler
172(1)
A Woodcut
173(1)
Web
174(1)
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell
174(2)
EVENING TRAIN (1992)
Suspended
176(1)
Settling
176(1)
Elusive
177(1)
Effacement
177(1)
Presence
178(1)
Open Secret
178(1)
For Bet
179(1)
Flowers of Sophia
179(1)
Evening Train
180(1)
Witness
181(1)
Salvador Mundi: Via Crucis
182(1)
SANDS OF THE WELL (1998)
What Harbinger?
183(1)
Le Motif
183(1)
In Question
184(1)
The Mystery of Deep Candor
184(1)
Sojourns in the Parallel World
185(1)
The Change
186(1)
For Those Whom the Gods Love Less
187(1)
Conversion of Brother Lawrence
188(2)
Pentimento
190(1)
Sands of the Well
191(1)
Primary Wonder
192(1)
Crow Spring
193(1)
In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being
194(1)
THIS GREAT UNKNOWING: LAST POEMS (1999)
Celebration
194(1)
First Love
195(2)
Roast Potatoes
197(2)
the mountain's daily speech is silence
199(1)
Once Only
199(1)
The Metier of Blossoming
200(2)
Enduring Love
202(1)
Afterword 203(10)
Paul A. Lacey
Notes 213(2)
Index of Titles and First Lines 215

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