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    News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness

    By Robert Bly, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda and

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    The renowned American poet and translator collects 150 poems—from across the globe and many eras—that demonstrate our changing relationship with nature.
     
    In News of the Universe, Robert Bly has assembled a uniquely cross-cultural anthology of poems that, taken together, illuminate his vision of human history over the past several centuries. The book’s 150 poems span the globe from the 1700s to the present day: from the ecstatic Sufi poet Rumi to contemporary voices like Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov, Charles Simic, and Mary Oliver.
     
    In brilliant introductory essays, Bly uses these poems to traces our shifting attitudes toward the natural world. Beginning with what he calls the “Old Position” of 18th century intellectuals who saw human reason as separate and superior, he then follows the reemergent longing for connection expressed by the Romantics and American poets like Whitman and Dickinson. Bly’s translations of Neruda, Rilke, and others, along with superb examples of non-Western verse such as Inuit and Zuni songs, complete this far-reaching and provocative anthology.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781619026957
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    News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness
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    Robert Bly

    Robert Bly's books of poetry include The Night Abraham Called to the Stars and My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy. His awards include the National Book Award for poetry and two Guggenheims. He lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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      A wondrous anthology of poems of the soul. Reading this is like opening to the universe and feeling it move through you. Reading it out loud may actually change the universe...I loved this book before I'd ever really paid attention to Bly as a poet and men's movement guy. When I connected the two, I felt like I had come home.