Bibliograph

Stealing sugar from the castle, selected poems, 1950 to 2013, Robert Bly

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Stealing sugar from the castle, selected poems, 1950 to 2013, Robert Bly

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Stealing sugar from the castle

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

829738450

Responsibility statement

Robert Bly

Sub title

selected poems, 1950 to 2013

Summary

Selected from throughout Bly's monumental body of work from 1950 through the present, we see how he has long been the voice of transcendentalism and meditative mysticism for his generation. In poetry spiritual yet worldly, celebrating the uncanny beauty of the everyday, Bly is a poet moved by the mysteries of the world around him, speaking the language of images in a voice brilliant and boldFrom 1950 through the present, this collection of monumental work from the voice of transcendentalism and meditative mysticism for his generation celebrates the uncanny beauty of the everyday

Table Of Contents

Early poems, 1950-1955 -- Silence in the snowy fields, 1958-1978, and related poems -- The light around the body, 1967, and related poems -- The teeth mother naked at last, 1970-1972 -- The Point Reyes poems, 1974, and related poems -- Sleepers joining hands, 1973-1986 -- Loving a woman in two worlds, 1978-1985, and related poems -- This body is made of camphor and gopherwood, 1973-1980 -- The man in the black coat turns, 1980-1984 -- Meditations on the insatiable soul, 1990-1994 -- Morning poems, 1993-1997 -- Poems from eating the honey of words, 1999 -- The night Abraham called to the stars, 2001 -- My sentence was a thousand years of joy, 2005 -- Talking to the ear of a donkey, 2011 -- New poems, 2012-2013

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