The wonderful Doris Lessing wrote The Golden Notebook. I don't
remember the details, but all I've read of Lessing would make me doubt
she writes from a Catholic perspective or with Catholic symbols
anywhere.

Best,
Marcia

Quoting Diana Manister <[log in to unmask]>:

> Nancy I will read those Levertov poems. I have only read /The
> Golden Notebook/.
>
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> From: /Nancy Gish <[log in to unmask]>/
> Reply-To: /"T. S. Eliot Discussion forum." <[log in to unmask]>/
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: /Re: Fearing death by water/
> Date: /Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:24:49 -0400/
>
> I think you would find it interesting to read--if you have
> not--Denise Levertov's late Catholic poems (she became, in her own
> words, increasingly orthodox), especially those in BREATHING THE
> WATER (New Directions, 1987). "On a Theme from Julian's Chapter XX"
> is about Jesus on the cross and the meaning she sees in his suffering
> as body.
>