A Poet's Revolution

Acknowledgements
Prologue

PART ONE. LISTENING TO DISTANT GUNS (1923-1948)
1. "The Walls of the Garden, the First Light": Beginnings (1923-1933)
2. "When Anna Screamed": Levertov's Response to Nazi Oppression (1933-1939)
3. The Double Image: Apprenticeship during World War II (1939-1946)
4. "Recoveries": Abortion, Adventure, and Marriage (1947-1948)

PART TWO. A COMMON GROUND (1949-1966)
5. "Dancing Edgeways": Coming of Age as a Poet in the New World (1949-1955)
6. "The True Artist": Levertov's Engagement with Tradition (1954-1960)
7. "The Poem Ascends": Taking a Postion (1960-1963)
8. "To Speak of Sorrow": Levertov's Emergence as a Social Poet (1963-1966)

PART THREE. LIFE AT WAR (1966-1974)
9. "Revolution or Death": Living in the Movement (1966-1970)
10. "The Freeing of the Dust": The Revolution Hits Home (1970-1974)

PART FOUR. SLEEPERS AWAKE (1975-1988)
11. "A Woman Alone": Beginning Again (1975-1981)
12. "The Task": Social Protest and Liberation Theology (1982-1988)

PART FIVE. RESETTLING (1989-1997)
13. "Of Shadow and Flame": The Re-cognition of Identity (1989-1992)
14: "Beauty Growls from the Fertile Dark": Facing Death (1992-1997)

Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgment of Permissions
Index