Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction: The challenge for a poetry of revelation
Levertov’s affirmative attitude toward life
The early poetry: Aesthetic principles of the earliest poetry
The middle period of poetry: Aesthetic principles of protest
The New Poetry of the 1980s
New and selected essays (1992)
The New Poetry of content – on spirit and on nature
The Final Poetry: The two main scholarly questions
Notes
2. A door in the hive: Creating the source of creation
I. The collection as a door or Threshold
II. Political and cultural poems
III. Reverence for the environment and a sense of spiritual coexistence
IV. “A universal dimension that speaks to the inner life”
V. Poems on the human spirit, art and religion
VI. The goal of the collection in the title poem
Through the Door in the Hive to the Next Poetry
Notes
3. Evening train: The poetry of moving life motionlessly
I. Lake mountain moon
The techniques of section I
II. The two magnets and III. Ancient airs: Resistance in a poem
IV. Flowers of Sophia
V. Evening train
VI. Witnessing from afar
VII. The almost island
VIII. The tide
The destination of the Evening Train
4. Sands of the well: Images of the imagination
5. Teserae: Memories and Suppositions: A poetic testimony of lived life
6. Epilogue: The mosaic of Levertor’s poetry
Selected, annotated bibliography
Index