Review: Leaping Poetry
Redactionele recensie - Kirkus ReviewsA fabulous, madly lucid, useful little book, comprising poems (by Rilke, Lorca, Ekelof, Takahashi, Ginsberg of course, and others who have the same understanding of how poems work; important to say it is not the common critical understanding) and essays on how to read them--that really work. Strong claim for a poetry text; hut Bly stands to orthodox criticism about the way Castaneda does to orthodox anthropology and so has resources that academics could only term occult. In this instance he calmly leads us out to the proposition that the real art of poetry consists in navigating beautiful shifts of consciousness between new, mammal brain and archaic reptile brain--but wait. Regardless of how you feel about the evolutionary brain model and its appropriateness here, it does point up something about the experience of these poems that more sanctioned approaches do not, and does so with compelling grace. Anyway, such is Bly's guileless authority that you can take him any way you want and still come away learning something about imagination. And his brain scheme, for the record, is heretically pro-neocortical. Elated and elating.
Review: Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations
Gebruikersrecensie - Patrick Mcgee - GoodreadsI read the 1972 version and still found most of Bly's insights helpful. His examples of leaping poets and their work did a good job of displaying his central points so the reader can latch onto them. Overall, I would recommend this book to other poets. Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations
Gebruikersrecensie - Nicola - GoodreadsA wonderful, bite-size (as in edible and, yes, sound-worthy/quote-worthy) book. I found Bly's basic premise that poetry is a product of both the unconscious and conscious mind very provocative. It ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations
Gebruikersrecensie - Gloriavirtutisumbra - GoodreadsBly's words are equal parts cryptic and methodical as he discusses his topic of what makes poetry really live. The best have a quality of 'leaping' from subject to subject in ways that make sense not ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations
Gebruikersrecensie - Yael - GoodreadsESSENTIAL READING!!!!!! Concise, fantastic explanation of the unexplainable! Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations
Gebruikersrecensie - Vpal23 - GoodreadsWhile this book is old, and it addresses some absurd poetry, such as Lorca's, the concept remains a true tenant in writing poetry. Bly's concept of leaping in poetry is something that serves as a creative fulcrum, in my opinion. Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations
Gebruikersrecensie - Bennet - GoodreadsI first read this years ago, and though I was enjoying poetry at that point, I had yet to really appreciate it. This little book is what got me going. Bly explores the influence of culture and ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations
Gebruikersrecensie - GoodreadsThis is the first book that got me to read poetry. I think it is the reason that I am in grad school now. I think it might be the most important book in my entire life. Should read it again before giving it a full 5 stars, but what the hell: read it; it's really good (I think). OK, j
Review: Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations
Gebruikersrecensie - Jon Stout - GoodreadsThis is one book that I didn't understand at all, and yet I enjoyed. Robert Bly argues that the best poetry makes leaps from one unconscious idea to another, and from unconscious to conscious, by ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations
Gebruikersrecensie - Satia - GoodreadsFor a book so slender, it is overflowing with brilliant content. I'd recommend it to anyone who is serious about their poetry. For more: http://satia.blogspot.com/2009/09/lea... Volledige recensie lezen
