false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172301596m/162345.jpg 162345 2 <p align="left">Robert Bly's new collection of poetry is made of forty-eight poems written in the intricate form called the <i>ghazal,</i> which is the central poetic form in Islam. The influence of Hafez and Rumi is clear, and yet the poems descend into the wealth of Western history, referring at times to Monet, Giordano Bruno,Emerson, St. Francis, Newton, and Chekhov, as well as to events in Bly's own life. The leaping between joy and "ruin" produces a poetry which makes him, as Kenneth Rexroth noted, "one of the leaders in a poetic revival which has returned American literature to the world community."</p> 156695 2002 The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems total:29|5:10|4:6|3:11|2:2|1:0| 29 111 35 2 3 0 false false Sun Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 22:46:21 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 23:29:35 -0700 2008
It was a decent read and I enjoyed several of the poems, but otherwise I felt a bit empty (and not a questing sort of emptiness, either) after finishing it.
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