Displaying 1 of 1 2011 Format: Book Author: Bly, Robert. Title: Talking into the ear of a donkey : poems / Robert Bly. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2011. Description: 107 pages ; 22 cm Summary: The poet conducts a self-examination of his life in poems that often address aging, memory, marriage, and living and dying well. Subjects: American poetry. Genre: Poetry. Contents: Acknowledgments -- 1: -- Ravens hiding in a shoe -- Courting forgetfulness -- Keeping our small boat afloat -- Paying attention to the melody -- Longing for the acrobat -- Nirmala's music -- Frogs after dark -- Sympathies of the long married -- Blind old man -- Father and son -- 2: -- Rains -- Roof nail -- Day in late June -- Dealing with parents -- Sense of getting older -- Old fishing lines -- Walking out in the morning -- Poetry reading in Maryland -- Lost trapper -- Starting a poem -- I have daughters and I have sons -- Mourning dove's call -- Taking into the ear of a donkey -- Wanting sumptuous heavens -- 3: -- Family thing -- Water tank -- Box of chocolates -- Keeping quiet -- Day the dock comes in -- Morning pajamas -- That problem in the family -- 4: -- Heard whispers -- Slim fir seeds -- Big-nostrilled moose -- Tristan and Isolde -- Turkish pears in August -- Thoreau as a lover -- In a time of losses -- So much time -- Grackles -- Turtle's eggs -- For the old Gnostics -- Pheasant chick's -- Orion and the farmstead -- Silent in the moonlight -- Ramage for the mountain -- What is sorrow for? -- Lovers in the river -- Camels -- Limits -- 5: -- Sunday afternoon -- Teapot -- Ready to sleep -- Housefly -- My father at forty -- My mother -- It's morning again -- Something to do for Aunt Clara -- Man at the door -- Hermit -- Poetry reading at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas -- 6: -- Uncertainty -- Threshers -- Longing -- What did we see today? -- Long-legged birds -- Hearing music at dawn -- Hawk in his nest -- My mournful room -- About my father -- Smoke-stained fingers -- What the old poets failed to say. LCCN: 2010052448 ISBN: 9780393080223 0393080226 9780393343649 0393343642 9780393080223 0393080226 Other Number: 668194804 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 638299 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 811 Bly Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
