Leaping Poetry

An Idea with Poems and Translations

By: Robert Bly

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Paperback | 10 November 2008

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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 u201criding on dragons.u201d 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 u201cleapingu201d as found in the works of poets from around the world, including Federico Garcia Lorca, Chu Yuan, Tomas Transtru00f6mer, 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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A fabulous, madly lucid, useful little book . . . such is Bly's guileless authority that you can take him any way you want and still come away learning something about imagination.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
Poem after poem is electrifying. A rousing little anthology indeed.-- "Publishers Weekly"

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