Description
In her sixteenth collection of new poetry from New Directions, Denise Levertov displays what The Village Voice has called all her “virtues of musicality, mystery, and directness.” A Door in the Hive addresses paintings, music, landscapes, terror in El Salvador, but the emphasis again––as in her recent Breathing the Water ––is on the contemplative. Her dialogue between “the eager inward gaze and the vast enigma” deepens. Meditative, the poems are at the same time informed by a keenly felt “Extremities, we are in/unacknowledged extremis./We feel only/a chill as the pulse of life/recedes.”
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
113 pages
Language
English
Published
Oct 1, 1989
Publisher
New Directions
Editions
2 editions
ISBN-10
0811211193
ISBN-13
9780811211192