Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected Poems, 1950 to 2013

by Robert Bly

Book Overview

Bly has long been the voice of transcendentalism and meditative mysticism for his generation. Influenced by Emerson and Thoreau, inspired by spiritual traditions from Sufism to Gnosticism, his vision is "oracular" ( Antioch Review ). From the rich, earthy simplicity of Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962) to the wild yet intricately formal ghazals of My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2005) and the striking richness and authority of Talking into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039324007X
• ISBN13: 9780393240078
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.6"