Tag Archives: Denise Levertov

How to Imagine Peace

By Robin Bates | Published: February 24, 2013

For Levertov, peace is made in the act of imagining it.

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I Grasp God’s Garment in the Void

By Robin Bates | Published: November 25, 2012

For Denise Levertov, poetry and prayer run on parallel tracks.

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A Vast Unfolding Design Lit by a Risen Sun

By Robin Bates | Published: October 28, 2012

Denise Levertov wrestled with God’s relationship to evil in the world.

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Doc, Prescribe Me a Poem

By Robin Bates | Published: October 10, 2012

Literature as therapy, Greek tragedy as soap opera: assorted articles about lit and life.

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Water to Solace Our Dry Hearts

By Robin Bates | Published: September 9, 2012

Levertov’s “Fountain” invokes the healing power of water.

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More Frightening than Arrest, Freedom

By Robin Bates | Published: August 26, 2012

Levertov’s poem about Peter escaping prison confronts existential issues of freedom

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Jesus’s Momentary Desire to Step Back

By Robin Bates | Published: April 1, 2012

Levertov focuses on Jesus’s very human moments of doubt, which serve to emphasize the sublimity of his acceptance of his humiliation and death.

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War’s Human Costs (So Rethink Iran)

By Robin Bates | Published: March 12, 2012

Levertov’s “What Were They Like” gives us a poem that may help dampen hysteria about going to war with Iran.

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Praise the Wet Snow

By Robin Bates | Published: February 12, 2012

In her poem about a gray October day, Denise Levertov senses “the invisible sun burning beyond.”

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