Morning Poems

图书信息

作者	Bly, Robert
出版社	HarperCollins e-books
ISBN	9780061979835
出版时间	2009-10-01
字数	7.3万
分类	HarperCollins e-books,进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

"Morning Poems is a sensational collection Robert Bly's best in many years. Inspired by the example of William Stafford, Bly decided to embark on the project of writing a daily poem: Every morning he would stay in bed until he had completed the day's work. These 'little adventures/In Morning longing,' as he calls them, address classic poetic subjects (childhood, the seasons, death and heaven) in a way that capitalizes fully on the pun in the book's title. These are morning poems, full of the delight and mystery of waking in a new day, and they also do their share of mourning, elegizing the deceases and capturing the 'moment of sorror before creation.' Some of the poems are dialogues where unconventional speakers include mice, maple trees, bundles of grain, the body, the 'oldest mind' and the soul. A particularly moving sequence involves Bly's imaginative transactions with a great and unlikely precursor, Wallace Stevens. The whole is a fascinating and original book from one of our most fascinating authors." David Lehman

目录

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Part I

Early Morning in Your Room

The Shocks We Put Our Pitchforks Into

Why We Don’t Die

Hawthorne and the Elephant

The Old Woman Frying Perch

Conversation with the Soul

He Wanted to Live His Life Over

The Glimpse of Something in the Oven

Bad People

Things to Think

Two Ways to Write Poems

The Barn at Elabuga

The Russian

Part II

Some Men Find It Hard to Finish Sentences

Visiting the Eighty-Five-Year-Old Poet

All These Stories

The Resemblance Between Your Life and a Dog

Reading in a Boat

Waking on the Farm

When Threshing Time Ends

A Family Photograph, Sunday Morning, 1940

A Farm in Western Minnesota

For a Childhood Friend, Marie

What the Animals Paid

The Bear and the Man

When My Dead Father Called

Part III

The Green Cookstove

The Playful Deeds of the Wind

It Is So Easy to Give In

Wanting More Applause at a Conference

Making Smoke

Thinking About Old Jobs

Conversation with a Monster

The Black Figure Below the Boat

The Man Who Didn’t Know What Was His

The Mouse

The Storm

The Yellow Dot

Part IV

It’s As If Someone Else Is with Me

A Week of Poems at Bennington

The Dog’s Ears

When the Cat Stole the Milk

Being Happy All Night

The Widowed Friend

We Only Say That

Wounding Others

What the Buttocks Think

What Bill Stafford Was Like

A Poem Is Some Remembering

Wallace Stevens and Mozart

Rethinking Wallace Stevens

Tasting Heaven

Wallace Stevens in the Fourth Grade

The Waltz

Part V

The Neurons Who Watch Birds

A Question the Bundle Had

Seeing the Eclipse in Maine

Clothespins

The Face in the Toyota

The Scandal

Looking at the Stars

After a Friend’s Death

The Parcel

My Doubts on Going to Visit a New Friend

One Source of Bad Information

Thoughts

The Grandparent and the Granddaughter

The Ocean Rising and Falling

Ocean Rain and Music

Part VI

Looking at Aging Faces

November

Three-Day Fall Rain

Winter Afternoon by the Lake

Isaac Bashevis and Pasternak

People Like Us

A Christmas Poem

Reading Silence in the Snowy Fields

Words the Dreamer Spoke to My Father in Maine

Visiting Sand Island

A Poem for Giambattista Vico Written by the Pacific

For Ruth

A Conversation with a Mouse

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Other Books by Robert Bly

Copyright

About the Publisher