The Stream & the Sapphire

by Levertov, Denise

• ISBN13: 9780811213530
• ISBN10: 0811213536
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: New Directions

Summary

Conceived as a convenience to those readers concerned with doubt and faith, Denise Levertov's 34 selected poems originally were published in seven separate volumes. The earliest dates from 1978, and the group together more or less traces Levertov's slow movement from agnosticism to Christian faith.

Table of Contents

Foreword by the Author
Human Being	p. 3
Of Being	p. 5
The Avowal	p. 6
'The Holy One ...'	p. 7
'I learned that her name was Proverb'	p. 8
A Calvary Path	p. 9
Candlemas	p. 11
Angus Dei	p. 12
Flickering Mind	p. 15
On a Theme by Thomas Merton	p. 17
Standoff	p. 18
On the Mystery of the Incarnation	p. 19
Variation on a Theme by Rilke	p. 20
Psalm Fragments (Schnittke String Trio)	p. 21
Suspended	p. 24
The Tide	p. 25
'In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being'	p. 27
The Beginning of Wisdom	p. 28
Altars	p. 30
To Live in the Mercy of God	p. 31
Primary Wonder	p. 33
Poetics of Faith	p. 37
St. Peter and the Angel	p. 39
Caedmon	p. 41
The Servant-Girl at Emmaus	p. 43
Conversion of Brother Lawrence	p. 45
Dom Helder Camara at the Nuclear Test Site	p. 48
The Showings: Lady Julian of Norwich	p. 50
Annunciation	p. 59
On the Parables of the Mustard Seed	p. 65
What the Figtree Said	p. 67
A Heresy	p. 69
Salvator Mundi: Via Crucis	p. 73
On a Theme from Julian's Chapter XX	p. 75
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell	p. 77
On Belief in the Physical Resurrection of Jesus	p. 79
St. Thomas Didymus	p. 81
Ascension	p. 83
Notes	p. 85
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