The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes

By Denise Levertov

The poet offers a range of thirty-four of her personal poems culled from formerly released volumes, tracing her move from agnosticism to Christian religion and her oscillation from doubt to confirmation alongside the best way.

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Ahead of it was once wiped clean, the topic was once now not obvious: in basic terms whilst the figures at desk in a room at the back of her have been published was once her formerly ambiguous expression basically legible as acutely attentive. “Conversion of Brother Lawrence”: The quotations are from Brother Lawrence’s The perform of the Presence of God (available in lots of editions), and the biographical allusions are in response to the unique introductions. “The Showings”: The quotations are taken from the Pelican and the Paulist Press Classics of Western Spirituality variants. “On a topic from Julian’s bankruptcy XX”: this is often from the longer textual content of Julian of Norwich’s Showings (or Revelations). The quoted strains stick with the Grace Warrack transcription (1901). Warrack makes use of the note “kinship” in her title-heading for the bankruptcy, although within the textual content itself she says “kindness,” thus—as in her Glossary—reminding one of many roots universal to either phrases. BOOKS by means of DENISE LEVERTOV Poetry The Double photo the following and Now Overland to the Islands With Eyes behind Our Heads The Jacob’s Ladder O style and spot The Sorrow Dance Relearning the Alphabet to stick Alive Footprints The liberating of the airborne dirt and dust lifestyles within the wooded area gathered previous Poems 1940–1960 Candles in Babylon Poems 1960–1967 indirect Prayers Poems 1968–1972 respiring the Water A Door within the Hive night teach Sands of the good The existence round Us The movement and the Sapphire This nice Unknowing: final Poems Prose New & chosen Essays Tesserae: stories & Suppositions The Letters of Denise Levertov & William Carlos Williams Translations Guillevic/Selected Poems Joubert/Black Iris (Copper Canyon Press) Copyright � 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 by way of Denise Levertov All rights reserved. apart from short passages quoted in a newspaper, journal, radio, tv, or web site assessment, no a part of this booklet can be reproduced in any shape or in any way, digital or mechanical, together with photocopying and recording, or by means of any details garage and retrieval process, with out permission in writing from the writer. The circulation and the Sapphire comprises poems from seven past Denise Levertov books with New instructions: The Sands of the good (1996), night educate (1992). A Door within the Hive (1989), respiring the Water (1987), indirect Prayers (1984), Candles in Babylon (1982), and lifestyles within the wooded area (1978). Designed via Sylvia Frezzolini Severance First released clothbound and as New instructions Paperbook 844 in 1997 released concurrently in Canada by means of Penguin Books Canada restricted Library of Congress Cataloging in booklet information Levertov, Denise, 1923- The move and the sapphire : chosen poems on non secular topics / Denise Levertov. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-811-22240-2 (e-book) 1. spiritual poetry, American. 1. name. PS3562. E8876A6 1997 811’.

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