Breathing the Water - Softcover

Levertov, Denise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811210278 ISBN 13: 9780811210270

Publisher: New Directions, 1987

Synopsis

“Levertov's master––more than mastery, because she is one of the originators––of contemporary poetic form, informed with a fierce, generous intelligence, can be frightening.” ―Ursula Le Guin, Washington Post

Arranged in seven parts and culminating in the superb "The Showings: Lady Julian of Norwich," Breathing the Water draws the readers deep into spiritual domains––not in order to leave the world behind, but to reanimate our sometimes dormant love for it.

About this title

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.

Review:

The Absentee
Athanor
August Daybreak
A Blessing
Caedmon
Candlemas
Captive Flower
Carapace
Ceremonies
The Day Longs For The Evening
A Doorkey For Cordova
During A Son's Dangerous Illness
Embrasure
Every Day
From The Image-flow - Death Of Chausson, 1899
From The Image-flow - South Africa 1986
From The Image-flow - Summer Of 1986
Girls
The Holy One, Blessed Be He, Wanders Again
Hunting The Phoenix
I Learned That Her Name Was Proverb
In Memory: After A Friend's Sudden Death
In Praise Of Allium
La Cordelle
The Last Heavy Fairytale, In Which One Lays One's Heart ...
Making Peace
Missing Beatrice
The Mockingbird Of Mockingbirds
The Myriad Past, It Enters Us And Disappears ...
On A Theme From Julian's Chapter Xx
Poet Power
The Sea's Repeated Gesture
The Servant-girl At Emmaus (a Painting By Velazquez)
She Wept And The Women Consoled Her
The Showings: Lady Julian Of Norwich, 1342-1416
The Spirits Appeased
The Spy
Standoff
The Stricken Children
To Olga
To One Steeped In Bitterness
Urgent Whisper
Variation And Reflection On A Theme By Rilke
Variation On A Theme By Rilke
Variation On A Theme By Rilke (the Book Of Hours, Bk I, 1)
Wavering
The Well
Window-blind
Zeroing In
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0811210278
• ISBN 13: 9780811210270
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100