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Talking Into the Ear of a Donkey: Poems

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Talking Into the Ear of a Donkey: Poems

â€œThe kind of volume anyone should read for the exquisite pleasure of encountering poetry completely under its creatorâ€™s tremendous control.â€â€”The Rumpus
In his richest and most varied collection of poems to date, Robert Bly mines lifelong fascination with poetic form. The poems in Talking into the Ear of a Donkey range from free verse to Blyâ€™s uniquely American version of the famous ghazal form. In the title poem, Bly addresses the â€œdonkeyâ€â€”possibly poetry itselfâ€”which has carried him through a writing life of more than six decades:

from "Talking into the Ear of a Donkey"
Â Â Â Â Â "What has happened to the spring,"
Â Â Â Â Â I cry, "and our legs that were so joyful
Â Â Â Â Â In the bobblings of April?" "Oh, never mind
Â Â Â Â Â About all that," the donkey
Â Â Â Â Â Says. "Just take hold of my mane, so you
Â Â Â Â Â Can lift your lips closer to my hairy ears."
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2012-11-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393343649

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