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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780060934446
ISBN: 0060934441
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 112
Publication Date: 2002-04
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Product Release Date: 2002-04-02
Studio: Harper Perennial

Robert Bly's new collection of poetry is made of forty-eight poems written in the intricate form called the ghazal, which is the central poetic form in Islam. The influence of Hafez and Rumi is clear, and yet the poems descend into the wealth of Western history, referring at times to Monet, Giordano Bruno,Emerson, St. Francis, Newton, and Chekhov, as well as to events in Bly's own life. The leaping between joy and "ruin" produces a poetry which makes him, as Kenneth Rexroth noted, "one of the leaders in a poetic revival which has returned American literature to the world community."

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Review Summary: The Night Abraham Called to the Stars
Review: The title poem, refered to as "clunky" by the Publishers Weekly reviewer, is also one of the first poems of the many, many that I have read and collected that really spoke to me. It is one that I enjoy reading still today.

Perhaps this collection is technically inferior in some ways that more studied men than I might disdain, but it feels like a Hermann Hesse novel to me: I know that it isn't the "best" literature, but it is literature that inspires me to feel and contemplate, which makes it a favorite of mine.

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