| | News of the Universe |  | Author: Robert, Editor Bly
Publisher: Sierra Club Books, 1980
Category: Book
Buy Used: $15.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3404770
Media: Paperback
ASIN: B000ICTVKU
Publication Date: 1980
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Condition: Publisher: Sierra Club, 1980Date of Publication: 1980Binding: PaperbackCondition: Very close to fine and bright stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Done in usual Bly enthusiasm. The poems are world-wide and well chosen
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The seat of the soul July 17, 2007
"The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap."
"News of the Universe" was originally issued as a Sierra Club book and contains poems selected (and sometimes translated) by Robert Bly. The book is worth buying just for Bly's introduction and his analysis of 'Dover Beach'. Frequently, I find myself dipping into "News of the Universe" for inspiration (like a Protestant choosing a random verse from the Bible). I keep this book at work for the times when I feel really out of touch with the Natural World. Then I open up "News of the Universe" and find (for instance):
"In the heart of man/There sleeps a green worm/That has spun the heart about itself,/And that shall dream itself black wings/One day to break free into the beautiful black sky" - Galway Kinnell.
Somehow as I sit in this dry little cubicle, surrounded by gray cloth, plastic plug-ins, and Corporate slogans, the poems that Bly selected for this book make me feel less isolated from the true Universe. The poems ring True. They refresh. Since that was Bly's stated intention when he collected the poems, you ought to try them yourself and see if they work for you.
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