STEALING SUGAR FROM THE CASTLE: Selected Poems, 1950 to 2013.
Bly, Robert.
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From Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
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About this Item
First printing. A significant selection of poems from over 60 years of writing by this award-winning poet who was "influenced by Emerson and Thoreau, inspired by spiritual traditions from Sufism to Gnosticism." Includes eight new poems from 2012-2013. SIGNED bookplate laid in. Index. xxii, 378 pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). Seller Inventory # 80497
Bibliographic Details
Title: STEALING SUGAR FROM THE CASTLE: Selected ...
Publisher: Norton
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: FINE
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
“[Robert Bly] is . . . the most recent in a line of great American transcendentalist writers.”―New York Times
Selected from throughout Robert Bly’s monumental body of work from 1950 through the present, Stealing Sugar from the Castle represents the culmination of an astonishing career in American letters.Bly has long been the voice of transcendentalism and meditative mysticism for his generation. Influenced by Emerson and Thoreau, inspired by spiritual traditions from Sufism to Gnosticism, his vision is “oracular” (Antioch Review). From the rich, earthy simplicity of Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962) to the wild yet intricately formal ghazals of My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2005) and the striking richness and authority of Talking into the Ear of a Donkey (2011), Bly’s poetry is spiritual yet worldly, celebrating the uncanny beauty of the everyday. “I am happy, / The moon rising above the turkey sheds. // The small world of the car / Plunges through the deep fields of the night,” he writes in “Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River.” Here is a poet moved by the mysteries of the world around him, speaking the language of images in a voice brilliant and bold.
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