Tag Archives: Denise Levertov

The Quiet Mystery Returns

By Robin Bates | Published: April 19, 2015

In “Primary Wonder” Denise Levertov wonders at the quiet mystery” that “there is anything, anything at all.”

By Robin Bates | Published: January 18, 2015

Denise Levertov’s “Avowal” equates opening oneself to God to opening oneself to “the Creator Spirit.”

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By Robin Bates | Published: August 31, 2014

Denise Levertov, who called out Jewish complicity in the 1982 massacres by Lebanese Christians, might do the same today with Gaza.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 20, 2014

Levertov uses to story of Jacob’s Ladder to describe the miracle of poetry.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 27, 2014

In Levertov’s poem on St. Thomas, she links his doubts with that of the father of the demon-possessed son who comes to Jesus.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 7, 2013

Denise Levertov’s poem about moving amongst tall trees becomes a meditation on life and afterlife.

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By Robin Bates | Published: February 24, 2013

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

By Robin Bates | Published: November 25, 2012

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

By Robin Bates | Published: October 28, 2012

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