Door in the Hive - Hardcover

Annunciation
At One
August Houseplant
The Blind Man's House At The Edge Of The Cliff
The Book Without Words
The Braiding
A Calvary Path
Complicity
Distanced
Dream 'cello
Early
El Salvador: Requiem And Invocation
Entering Another Chapter
Envy
Flickering Mind
Flying High
For Instance
Ikon: The Harrowing Of Hell
In California: Morning, Evening, Late January
In Tonga The Sacred Bats
Inheritance
Intimation
Kin And Kin
Land Of Death-squads
The Life Of Art
The Love Of Morning
Midnight Gladness
Nativity: An Altarpiece
On The Mystery Of The Incarnation
On The Parables Of The Mustard Seed
The Open Sentence
The Past
The Past: 2
Praise Of A Palmtree
Rearrangement
Reflections
The Sculptor (homage To Chillida)
The Sorcerer
A Sound
Soutine (two Paintings)
St. Thomas Didymus
A Stone From Iona
A Surrogate
Those Who Want Out
To R. D., March 4th 1988
To Rilke
A Traveler
Two Mountains
Two Tharenodies And A Psalm
Variation On A Theme By Rilke (1)
Variation On A Theme By Rilke (3)
Web
Where Is The Angel For Me To Wrestle?
Wings In The Pedlar's Pack
The Winter Stars
A Woodcut
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

A poet of unusual mindfulness, Levertov conjoins a delicate, mystical lyricism with a passional political consciousness. The poems in her most recent collection are inspired by the small miracles of the natural world, terrorism in Central America, paintings, and other artists, especially Rilke. Like the mystics she often evokes, Levertov finds transcendence in the acute observation of the ordinary. Indeed, the longing for transcendence suffuses these poems: "Because/ I know a different need has begun/ to cast its lines out from me/ into a place unknown, I reach/ for a silence almost present,/ elusive among my heartbeats." Levertov is among the finest poets writing today; this volume belongs in all collections of contemporary poetry.
- Christine Stenstrom, New York Law Sch. Lib.
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