The Jacob's ladder / by Denise Levertov.

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Main Author: Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997
Other title:Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature.
Format: Book
Language:English
Donor:Lebowitz copy 5 gift of Brian E. Lebowitz.
Published: [New York] : The Author, 1961.
Series:New Directions paperbook ; 112.
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Table of Contents:
  • To the reader
  • A common ground
  • The world outside
  • The part
  • A sequence
  • The rainwalkers
  • Partial resemblance
  • Night on Hatchet Cove
  • The tide
  • The depths
  • Six variations
  • A map of the western part of the County of Essex in England
  • Come into animal presence
  • Air of November
  • Song for a dark voice
  • A window
  • '..Else a great Prince in prison lies'
  • Five poems from Mexico: The weave; Corazón; The rose; Canticle; Sierra
  • Three meditations
  • In memory of Boris Pasternak
  • 'Ce bruit de la mer..' (after Julius Supervielle)
  • Resting figure
  • The Jacob's ladder
  • The well
  • The illustration
  • Deaths
  • A music
  • A letter to William Kinter of Muhlenberg
  • Clouds
  • The thread
  • From the roof
  • The presence
  • Luxury
  • The tulips
  • The grace-note
  • The fountain
  • The necessity
  • Matins
  • During the Eichmann trial: i. When we look up; ii. The peachtree; iii. Crystal night
  • A solitude
  • Overland to the islands
  • Scenes from the life of the peppertrees
  • The whirlwind
  • One A.M.
  • The absence
  • Lonely man
  • Merritt Parkway
  • Turning
  • The springtime
  • A stir in the air
  • Sunday afternoon
  • The recognition
  • Illustrious ancestors.