Leaping Poetry
eBook - ePub

Leaping Poetry

An Idea with Poems and Translations

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Leaping Poetry

An Idea with Poems and Translations

About this book

Leaping Poetry is Robert Bly's testament to the singular importance of the artistic leap that bridges the gap between conscious and unconscious thought in any great work of art; the process that Bly refers to as "riding on dragons." Originally published in 1972 in Bly's literary journal The Seventies, Leaping Poetry is part anthology and part commentary, wherein Bly seeks to rejuvenate modern Western poetry through his revelations of "leaping" as found in the works of poets from around the world, including Federico Garcia Lorca, Chu Yuan, Tomas Transtromer, and Allen Ginsberg, among others, while also outlining the basic principles that shape his own poetry. Bly seeks the use of quick, free association of the known and the unknown-the innate animal and rational cognition-which, he maintains, have been kept apart in the development of Western religious, intellectual, and literary thought.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Looking For Dragon Smoke
  6. Spanish Leaping
  7. Wild Association
  8. Poetry of Steady Light
  9. Leaping in Narrative Poetry
  10. Hopping
  11. The Three Brains
  12. Surrealism, Rilke, and Listening
  13. Home Grown Poems
  14. Acknowledgments