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Tables of Contents for The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov
Chapter/Section Title
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Page Count
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