Dec 22, 2009

A Door in the Hive | A Door in the Hive

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Author: Denise Levertov
First Published: 1989
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Subjects: Mythology or myths, Blindness or blind persons, Future, Spiritual life or spirituality, Central America or Central Americans, Earth, Christ figures or saviors

Denise Levertov’s poetry is a perpetual irritant to the pragmatist. As Robert Duncan demonstrated in The Truth and Life of Myth (1968), modern critics disliked the young Levertov’s Hasidic fancies of angels disguised as peddlers on a New York street. For Levertov, the natural world manifests revelation, and if realists are impatient with her, she is frustrated with their resignation:

why should people

plod forever on foot, not glide like herons

through the blue and white

promise unfolding

over their heads, over

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A Door in the Hive | A Door in the Hive

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