Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life
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Overview
"Bly's poems flow from . . . the great current of longing for reality, true maturity, the devotee's call to the Beloved."—The Nation
"Robert Bly changed the course of poetry in America by opening it up to the imagination and the deep-image aesthetic, he is dedicated to reintegrating poetry with life—daily life, the life of the body, spiritual and political life."—Huffington Post
The Chinese-influenced strain of Bly's work with its room for movement, spontaneity, and openness is celebrated in Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life and most amply showcased in its over one hundred and fifty poems. The poems, collected from out-of-print books, chapbooks, and uncollected work spanning fifty years, form a companion to his recent Stealing Sugar From The Castle: New and Selected Poems.
Like The New Moon I Will Live My Life
When your privacy is beginning over,
How beautiful the things are that you did not notice before!
A few sweetclover plants
Along the road to Bellingham,
Culvert ends poking out of driveways,
Wooden corncribs, slowly falling,
What no one loves, no one rushes towards or shouts about,
What lives like the new moon,
And the wind
Blowing against the rumps of grazing cows.
Telephone wires stretched across water,
A drowning sailor standing at the foot of his mother's bed,
Grandfathers and grandsons sitting together.
Robert Bly is one of the most influencial poets, translators, and editors of his generation.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781935210641 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | White Pine Press |
| Publication date: | 03/24/2015 |
| Series: | White Pine Press Distinguished Poets Series , #2 |
| Pages: | 220 |
| Sales rank: | 557,898 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
He is a Loft Foreword Program poetry instructor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.
Table of Contents
Robert Bly's Less Traveled Road Thomas R. Smith 13
from The Lion's Tail and Eyes (1962)
Silence 27
Reading the Translations of William Hung 28
The Grass-Headed Lion 29
Traveller Leaves Appomatox 30
Sparks of the Body 32
Evolution of Fish 33
from Jumping Out of Bed (1973/1987)
Turtle Climbing From a Rock 37
Like the New Moon I Will Live My Lfe 38
Some November Privacy Poems 39
On a Moonlit Road in the North Woods 40
The Walnut Tree Orchard 41
The Hill of Hua-Tzu 42
Chrysanthemums 43
After Long Busyness 44
Six Images for Death 45
A Night in December 46
Sleeping Faces 47
The Creek by the Luan House 48
The Magnolia Grove 49
Another Doing Nothing Poem 50
Walking in Ditch Grass 51
Tongues Whirling 52
A Doing Nothing Poem 53
The Poem 54
Looking at Cloud Banks Below the Plane Window 55
Two Drinking Songs 56
from Old Man Rubbing His Eyes (1975)
October Frost 59
Writing Again 60
Fall Poem/61 Sitting in Fall Grass 62
Night Farmyard 63
Dawn at Threshing Time 64
Reading in Fall Rain 65
Insect Heads 66
To Live 66
Cornpicker Poem 67
Prophets 68
A Cricket in the Wainscoting 69
Digging Worms 70
Walking and Sitting 71
A Long Walk Before the Snow Began 72
A Dream on the Night of First Snow 73
A Walk 74
from The Loon (1977)
The Loon 77
Wind 77
Alone 77
The Car 78
August Sun 78
Near Dark 79
Near Morris 79
Kabekoua Lake 80
Winter Grass 80
Fall 81
Grass 81
Storm Windows 82
Ducks 82
from This Tree Will be Here for a Thousand Years (1979)
Women We Never See Again 85
November Fog 86
Ant Heaps by the Path 87
Amazed by an Accumulation of Snow 88
Pulling a Rowboat Up Among Lake Reeds 89
Moving Books to a New Study 90
Driving My Parents Home ac Christmas 91
After a Day of Work 92
Walking Where the Plows Have Been Turning 93
July Morning 94
An Empty Place 95
Prayer Service in an English Church 96
Fishing on a Lake at Night 97
Night of First Snow 98
Solitude of the Two Day Snowstorm 99
Frost Still in the Ground 100
Late Moon 101
A Dream of Retarded Children 102
Black Pony Eating Grass 103
The Fallen Tree 104
Nailing a Dock Together 105
Out Picking Up Corn 106
For My Brother, A Year After His Death 107
from Out of the Rolling Ocean & In the Month of May (1984)
Ferns 111
Secrets 111
The Black Hen 112
Returning Poem 113
The Minnow Turning 114
Leaves on the Highway 115
Two People At Dawn 116
from The Moon on a Fencepost (1988)
The Moon 119
Arriving in the North Woods 120
Moon Behind a Cottonwood Tree 121
Driving at Night 122
Outhouses Near Apple ton 123
Error While Driving 124
Spring 125
Windy Night in Summer 126
from The Apple Found in the Plowing (1989) & A Private Fall (1995)
A Private Fall 129
The Call Away 103
Sadness 131
Satisfaction 131
Living a Week Alone 133
Waking Up 133
A Windy Pasture by Moonlight 134
from Angels of Pompeii (1991)
The One Coming Closer 137
The Blue Cube 138
Orion the Hunter 139
from Gratitude to Old Teachers (1993)
A Dream of Williams Carlos Williams 143
Poem for James Wright 144
Wallace Stevens' Letters 145
The Chinese Peaks 146
The Gaiety of Form 147
Early Snow 148
An Open Rose 149
Words with Wallace Stevens 150
On the Oregon Coast 151
The Exhausted Bug 152
from Holes the Crickets Have Eaten in Blankets (1997)
On Assateague Island 155
After Your Death 156
My Dream 157
December 158
The Bear and the Man 159
Lake Sebago, Maine 160
Holes in Our Speech 161
Visiting a Cliff in Smiland 162
The Abandoned Hermit's Cabin 163
Attempting to Answer David Ignatow's Question 164
Frost and His Enemies 165
from The Urge to Travel Long Distances (2005)
Singing Late at Night at Chuck and Phil's Farm 170
Spring Night 171
Saturday Nights in Marietta 172
Summer 173
Gnats 174
The Hills near Darky, Wisconsin 175
A Cold Ram in May 176
Fishing Bullheads with Louis Simpson 177
The Visit of Two Birds 178
Looking at Some Ruts a Mile From Home 179
What Olaf Bull Said 180
October Maples 181
Floating on the Night Lake 181
Talk and Low Clouds 182
November 183
Farm Scenes 184
A Gift 185
Fall Night 185
Feeding the Horses 186
from Turkish Pears in August and other Ramages (2007)
Night in the Garden 190
Women and Men 191
Krishnamurti and His Students 192
The Old Stone on the Mountain 193
"No Begining or End" 194
"Whitman, how many hours I have loved your vowels" 195
Uncollected Poems
Walking on the Shore in Late August 199
The Bear's Tail 200
On the Rocks at Maui 201
Fall Solitude 202
A Moth with Black Eyes 203
Alone in a Blizzard 204
Wild Hay 205
Mornings of Winter 205
Poem in One Line 206
The Land on the Tip of a Hair 206
Poem in One Sentence 207
Waiting for a Ferry in Northern Europe 207
Looking Up at the Waterfall in Lofthus, Hardanger 208
Picking Mushrooms in Late Summer in the Western Half of the Island of Runmaro with Tomas Transtromer 209
Doing Nothing Poem 210
Lying in a Boat, Troubled 210
On Top of a Colorado Mountain 211
Letting My Eyes Fall to the River 212
In a Boat on Big Stone Lake 213
About the Author 215
About the Contributor and Editor 217
Acknowledgments 218