Sands of the Well (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Denise Levertov
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Politics, Nature, Religion, Poetry or poets, Human race, Spiritual life or spirituality, Pacific Northwest, Joy or sorrow
In “Revolutionary Love: Denise Levertov and the Poetics of Politics,” Sandra M. Gilbert describes Levertov as “a poet who trusts that a thread of potential joy is woven into every inch of the fabric that constitutes daily reality” (Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry, edited by James McCorkle, 1990). She is, and has always been, a poet of affirmation who wonders at the human ability to risk that joy, to undermine its potential, through corrupting political action and environmental inaction. In an earlier age, she might have been one of the “Fireside...
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