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