Collected poems

✍ Scribed by Robert Bly

• Book ID: 100371337
• Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 202 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0393652459

✦ Synopsis

An extraordinary culmination for Robert Bly’s lifelong intellectual adventure,Collected Poemspresents the full magnitude of his body of work for the first time. Bly has long been the voice of transcendentalism and meditative mysticism for his generation; every stage of his work is warmed by his devotion to the art of poetry and his affection for the varied worlds that inspire him. Influenced by Emerson and Thoreau alongside spiritual traditions from Sufism to Gnosticism, he is a poet moved by mysteries, speaking the language of images.Collected Poemsgathers the fourteen volumes of his impressive oeuvre into one place, including his imagistic debut,Silence in the Snowy Fields(1962); the clear-eyed truth-telling of his National Book Award–winning collection,The Light Around the Body(1967); the masterful prose poems ofThe Morning Glory(1975); and the fiercely introspective, uniquely American ghazals of his latest collection,Talking into the Ear of a Donkey(2011).

A monumental poetic achievement,Collected Poemsmakes clear why poets and lovers of poetry have long looked to Robert Bly for emotional authenticity, moral authority, and artistic inspiration.

✦ Subjects

Poetry