description: In her sixteenth collection of new poetry from New Directions, Denise Levertov displays what  The Village Voice  has called all her “virtues of musicality, mystery, and directness.”  A Door in the Hive  addresses paintings, music, landscapes, terror in El Salvador, but the emphasis again––as in her recent  Breathing the Water ––is on the contemplative. Her dialogue between “the eager inward gaze and the vast enigma” deepens. Meditative, the poems are at the same time informed by a keenly felt “Extremities, we are in/unacknowledged extremis./We feel only/a chill as the pulse of life/recedes.”
language: English
title: A Door in the Hive
titlecomplete: A Door in the Hive
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Bloodaxe Books