The Morning Glory
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- Synopsis
- (from the back cover) This book collects the prose poems Robert Bly has been writing over the last seven or eight years. The prose poem, he believes, appears whenever a country's psyche and literature begin to move toward abstraction. An ancient tradition holds that those who long for what is beyond sight have to look more closely at what the eyes can see. In daydreams we lose the visible. So these poems pay their attention to the creatures or objects immediately around the poet, whether he is in Wyoming or on his own farm in Minnesota or near a dying seal on some Pacific rocks. The world is violated by greedy observation, but the aim of gentle observation is "to enter the forest without moving a blade of grass." There turns out to be, in moments at least, no break between the energy flowing inside a man or woman and the energy flowing through plants and creatures "out there." Bly lives near where he was born in western Minnesota. He works with a Minnesota writers' collective, edits the Seventies, and has recently published translations of contemporary Swedish poets and the fifteenth-century Hindi poet, Kabir.
- Copyright:
- 1975
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 82 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780060103675
- Publisher:
- Harper & Row Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 06/05/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Robert Bly
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Dan Burke
- Proofread By:
- 164
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.