Breathing the Water
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Breathing the Water is Denise Levertov
's 19th book of poetry published originally in 1984
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II SPINOFFS, ONE
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V SPINOFFS, TWO
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VII
Denise Levertov
-Early life and influences:Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Essex.Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, p74 Her mother, Beatrice Spooner-Jones Levertoff, came from a small mining village in North Wales...
's 19th book of poetry published originally in 1984
1984 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*December 19 - Philip Larkin turns down the British Poet Laureateship, and Ted Hughes becomes Poet Laureate....
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Table of contents
I- Variation on a Theme by Rilke (The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem 1, Stanza 1)
- Hunting the Phoenix
- August Daybreak
- A Blessing
- The Spirits Appeased
II SPINOFFS, ONE
- A Doorkey for Cordova
- Athanor
- Window-Blind
- The Spy
- Embrasure
III
- Zeroing In
- The Absentee
- Captive Flower
- The Mockingbird of Mockingbirds
- In Memory: After a Friend's Sudden Death
- Missing Beatrice
- To Olga
- Ceremonies
- Every Day
- To One Steeped in Bitterness
IV
- The Stricken Children
- During a Son's Dangerous Illness
- Carapace
- Urgent Whisper
- From the Image-Flow—South Africa 1986
- Making Peace
- From the Image-Flow—Summer 1986
V SPINOFFS, TWO
- 'She wept, and the women consoled her'
- 'The day longs for the evening.'
- 'The last heavy fairytale....'
- 'The sea's repeated gesture.'
- 'The myriad past....'
- 'The Holy One, blessed be he, wanders again....'
- 'I learned that her name was Proverb.'
VI
- In Praise of Allium
- Poet Power
- The Well
- Girls
- From the Image-Flow—Death of Chausson, 1899
- Wavering
VII
- Caedmon
- The Servant-Girl at Emmaus (A Painting by Velazquez
- Standoff
- On a Theme from Julian's Chapter XX
- Candlemas
- Variation on a Theme by Rilke (The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem 4)
- La Cordelle
- The Showings, 1-6
- Variation and Reflection on a Theme by Rilke (The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem 7)