The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way.
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About the Author:
Denise Levertov (1923-1997) was a British born American poet. She wrote and published 20 books of poetry, criticism, translations. She also edited several anthologies. Among her many awards and honors, she received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Lannan Award, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Agnus Dei
Altars
Annunciation
Ascension
The Avowal
The Beginning Of Wisdom
Caedmon
A Calvary Path
Candlemas
Conversion Of Brother Lawrence
Dom Helder Camara At The Nuclear Test Site
Flickering Mind
A Heresy
The Holy One, Blessed Be He, Wanders Again
Human Being
I Learned That Her Name Was Proverb
Ikon: The Harrowing Of Hell
'in Whom We Live And Move And Have Our Being'
Of Being
On A Theme By Thomas Merton
On A Theme From Julian's Chapter Xx
On Belief In The Physical Resurrection Of Jesus
On The Mystery Of The Incarnation
On The Parables Of The Mustard Seed
Poetics Of Faith
Primary Wonder
Psalm Fragments (schnittke String Trio)
Salvator Mundi: Via Crucis
The Servant-girl At Emmaus (a Painting By Velazquez)
The Showings: Lady Julian Of Norwich, 1342-1416
St. Peter And The Angel
St. Thomas Didymus
Standoff
Suspended
The Tide
To Live In The Mercy Of God
Variation On A Theme By Rilke
What The Figtree Said
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ
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- PublisherNew Directions
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0811213536
- ISBN 13 9780811213530
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages88
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