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grew up here.Her mother is Welsh;her father wasthe late Dr Paul Levertoff,an Angli-can clergyman,by birth a RussianJew.In I947 she married an Ameri-can and has since lived in the UnitedStates,where she is accordingly betterknown than in this country.As Ken-neth Rexroth wrote in the New YorkTimes Book Review:'Denise Levertovhas evolved a style of her own,clear,sparse,immediate and vibrant witha very special sensibility and com-pletely feminine insight.She is themost subtly skilful poet of her genera-tion,the most profound,the mostmodest,the most moving.'Her deli-cate ear,technical grace and rangingimagination can be appreciated inthis volume,with themes rangingfrom her childhood in Essex to  \nMexico,from meditations on life andlove and passing scenes to the deeplyfelt poem on the Eichmann trial.  \n8.  \nE  \nBC  \nCITY OF BIRMINGHAMPOLYTECHNIC LIBRARY  \nAUTHORLEVERTOV,D.  \nTITLE The Jacab's ladder。SUBJECT No.821。914  \n132976  \nBOOK No  \nP53178-B1(C)  \nDATE DUE FOR RETURNKXwRBIRMNCHAM CITJNV²SITYDISCAIP53175-B:(C)  \n## The Jacob’s Ladder\n\nBy the same author  \n## The Double Image\n\nHere and Now  \nOverland to the Islands  \nWith Eyes at the Back of Our Heads  \n## The Jacob'sLadder\n\nby Denise Levertov  \nJonathan Cape  \nThirty Bedford SquareLondon  \nFIRST PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN 1965⑥1958,1959,1960,1961BY DENISE LEVERTOV GOODMAN  \nSome of the poems in this book have appeared in the follow-ing magazines,to whom we give grateful thanks for permis-sion to reprint:Big Table,The Catholic Worker,Chelsea,Chicago Choice,Damascus Road,Harper’s,Hip PocketPoems,Jubilee,The Nation,Nomad,Origin,Outburst(Lon-don),Poetry,Quarterly Review,Quixote,Salon 13(Guate-mala),San Francisco Review.  \nThe translations of two poems by Jules Supervielle arepublished by courtesy of Librairie Gallimard,Paris.  \nThe poems from Overland to the Islands are reprinted bycourtesy of the publisher,Jonathan Williams,Highlands,North Carolina.  \nThe quotation from Tales of the Hasidim:Later Masters byMartin Buber,copyright 1948 by Schocken Books Inc.,isreprinted by courtesy of the publisher.  \nPRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY  \nLATIMER,TREND AND Co.LTD.,WHITSTABLEON PAPER MADE BY JOHN DICKINSON AND Co.LTDBOUND BYA.W.BAIN AND CO.LTD,LONDON  \n\n| CITY OF BIRMINGHAM  \u003Cbr>POLYTECHNIC LIBRARY   |\n| --- |\n| BOOK  \u003Cbr>No.  \u003Cbr>132976   |\n| SU3JEC  \u003Cbr>No.  \u003Cbr>821.914   |\n\n## The Ladder\n\nRabbi Moshe(of Kobryn)taught:It is written:“And he dreamed,and behold a ladder set up on theearth.”That “he”is every man.Every man must know:I am clay,I am one of countless shards of clay,but“the top of it reached toheaven”-my soul reaches to heav-en;“and behold the angels of Godascending and descending on it\"-even the ascent and descent of theangels depend on my deeds.  \nTales of the Hasidim:Later Masters byMartin Buber.","cbCaihIv3LyW5nOy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihIv3LyW5nOy","pdf",2626268,104,"English","# The Jacob’s Ladder\n## By the 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