{"product_id":"my-sentence-was-a-thousand-years-of-joy-poems-paperback","title":"My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Bly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReaders have found Robert Bly's ghazals startling and new; they merge wildness with a beautiful formality. The ghazal form is well-known in Islamic culture, but only now finding its way into the literary culture of the West.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach stanza of three lines amounts to a finished poem. \"God crouches at night over a single pistachio. \/ The vastness of the Wind River Range in Wyoming \/ Has no more grandeur than the waist of a child.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ghazal's compacted energy is astounding. In a period when much American poetry is retreating into prosaic recordings of daily events, these poems do the opposite. \u003cem\u003eMy Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy\u003c\/em\u003e is Robert Bly's second book of ghazals. The poems have become more intricate and personal than they were in \u003cem\u003eThe Night Abraham Called to the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e, and the leaps even more bold. This book includes the already famous poem against the Iraq War, \"Call and Answer\" \"Tell me why it is we don t lift our voices these days \/ And cry over what is happening.\" The poems are intimate and yet reach out toward the world: the paintings of Robert Motherwell, the intensity of Flamenco singers, the sadness of the gnostics, the delight of high spirits and wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book reestablishes Bly's position as one of the greatest poets of our era. After many years of free verse in American poetry, years which have been very fertile, the inventive ghazal helps the imagination to luxuriate in a form once more. We are seeing a poetry emerge that is recovering many of the great intensities that modern art and poetry has aimed at and achieved in earlier generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders have found Robert Bly's ghazals startling and new; they merge wildness with a beautiful formality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Sentence Was a Thousand Years\u003c\/em\u003e of Joy is Robert Bly's second book of ghazals. The poems have become more intricate and personal than they were in \u003cem\u003eThe Night Abraham Called to the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e, and the leaps even bolder. This book includes the already famous poem against the Iraq War, Call and Answer: Tell me why it is we don't lift our voices these days \/ And cry over what is happening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems are intimate and yet reach out toward the world: the paintings of Robert Motherwell, the intensity of flamenco singers, the sadness of the gnostics, the delight of high spirits and wit. Robert Bly is writing the best poems of his life, and this book reestablishes his position as one of the greatest poets of our era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders have found Robert Bly's ghazals startling and new; they merge wildness with a beautiful formality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Sentence Was a Thousand Years\u003c\/em\u003e of Joy is Robert Bly's second book of ghazals. The poems have become more intricate and personal than they were in \u003cem\u003eThe Night Abraham Called to the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e, and the leaps even bolder. This book includes the already famous poem against the Iraq War, \"Call and Answer\" \"Tell me why it is we don't lift our voices these days \/ And cry over what is happening.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems are intimate and yet reach out toward the world: the paintings of Robert Motherwell, the intensity of flamenco singers, the sadness of the gnostics, the delight of high spirits and wit. Robert Bly is writing the best poems of his life, and this book reestablishes his position as one of the greatest poets of our era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.02 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758716191008,"sku":"9780060757199","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0324479cee7b22f9ac73823fefa2cba2.webp?v=1780133617","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/my-sentence-was-a-thousand-years-of-joy-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}