For Levertov, peace is made in the act of imagining it.
For Denise Levertov, poetry and prayer run on parallel tracks.
Denise Levertov wrestled with God’s relationship to evil in the world.
Literature as therapy, Greek tragedy as soap opera: assorted articles about lit and life.
Levertov’s “Fountain” invokes the healing power of water.
Levertov’s poem about Peter escaping prison confronts existential issues of freedom
Levertov focuses on Jesus’s very human moments of doubt, which serve to emphasize the sublimity of his acceptance of his humiliation and death.
Levertov’s “What Were They Like” gives us a poem that may help dampen hysteria about going to war with Iran.
In her poem about a gray October day, Denise Levertov senses “the invisible sun burning beyond.”
In her poem “Of Being,” Denise Levertov believes that mystery of creation outweighs the “looming presences” of great suffering and fear.
As oil continues to gush unabated into the Gulf of Mexico and as blame (never self blame) gushes from the mouths of company executives in Congressional hearings, we start to see more clearly the results of Dick Cheney’s attacks on oil company regulation. We are at a strange juncture with nature. On the one hand, I [...]
