"[Robert Bly] is . . . the most recent in a line of great American transcendentalist writers."—The New York Times With poems ranging from the ghazal form to free verse, Talking into the Ear of a Donkey is Robert Bly's richest and most varied collection. In the title poem, Bly addresses the "donkey"—possibly poetry itself—that has carried him through a writing life of more than six decades. from "Talking into the Ear of a Donkey" "What has happened to the spring," I cry, "and our legs that were so joyful In the bobblings of April?" "Oh, never mind About all that," the donkey Says. "Just take hold of my mane, so you Can lift your lips closer to my hairy ears."

Product Description: Wesleyan University Press is pleased to present a special miniature edition of this best-selling volume of poetry by Robert Bly. Originally published in 1962, Silence in the Snowy Fields was Bly's first book, and one of the first volumes of poetry published by Wesleyan...read more

WRITE A WINNING MARKETING PLAN! Successful marketing consultant Robert W. Bly cuts through the clutter of short-lived marketing techniques and trendy gimmicks and reveals the critical steps necessary to build a practical marketing plan that produces the results of an expensive consultant without the hefty costs. "Bob has the uncanny ability to take huge concepts and break them down in to practical, actionable steps. He does it again in The Marketing Plan Handbook. It’s a no-brainer that applying the wisdom in this book will add incremental dollars to your business’ bottom line." —MaryEllen Tribby, Publisher/CEO of Early To Rise, Founder of Working Moms Only.com "Most marketing books give you a list of cookie-cutter tactics you don't have time or budget for, along with some examples from famous brands that don't apply to anyone else's reality. This handbook is completely different. It's specifically for an entrepreneur or small business owner who needs to figure out a marketing plan that fits their special vision, wished-for lifestyle, and customers like a glove. Even if you're thinking of hiring a marketer or agency to help your business, read this book FIRST. You'll need it to give them the perfect directions for your unique business." —Anne Holland, founder of Marketing Sherpa "The Marketing Plan Handbook is loaded with rules, secrets, case histories, forms, charts, and worksheets on every facet of marketing and direct marketing. Bly never lets you lose sight of the essentials—continual accountability, analyzing (and besting) the competition, and the all-important arithmetic of return on investment." —Denny Hatch, founder of Who's Mailing What! "Bob concisely lays the secrets to his success, AND the very tools he uses to make hundreds of his clients more money than they ever dreamed possible. Don't stop. Start reading this book now—before your competition does!" —Steve Wexler, president of The Steve Wexler Creative Group

Product Description: “Joyous, inspired meditations that demonstrate Bly’s talent for conveying in the simplest language the richness and complexity of the universe around us.”—Library Journal Available for the first time, this significant volume collects over one hundred of Robert Bly’s prose poems written over a period of five decades...read more

Product Description: The great Persian poet Hafez is so beloved in Iran that almost every family there keeps his Divan close at hand. For some fifteen years, esteemed American poet and author Robert Bly has worked with the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn to produce this translation, which for the first time captures Hafez's nimbleness, his fierce humor, his astonishing range of thought, and his delight in love—enabling English speakers to fully appreciate the true genius of this master of the ghazal form, one of the greatest inventions in the history of poetry...read more

Product Description: Mirabai is a literary and spiritual figure of legendary proportions. Born a princess in the region of Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known) eschewed the marriage her royal family had arranged for her, celebrating instead her right to independence and intense devotion to Krishna in both her life and poetry...read more

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Product Description: Leaping Poetry is Robert Bly's testament to the importance of the artistic leap that bridges the gap between conscious and unconscious thought in any great work of art. Part anthology and part commentary, Bly seeks to rejuvenate modern Western poetry through his revelations of “leaping” as found in the works of poets from around the world, while also outlining the basic principles that shape his own poetry...read more

Product Description: "...spare, psalmlike poems....Together, the poems in this beautifully translated selection...provide us with the autobiography of a poet who felt most at home during winter, in solitude. Hauge deserves a larger American readership, and this book may summon it...read more

Product Description: Sometimes a poem has her own husband And children, her nooks and gardens and kitchens, Her stairs, and those sweet-armed serving boys Who carry veal in shiny copper pans. Some poems do give plebian sweets Tastier than the chocolates French diners Eat at evening, and old pleasures abundant As Turkish pears in the garden in August...read more

A selection of poems by the Ohio poet gathers together verse of considerable compassion and depth, celebrating the alienated people within American society as well as the restorative capacity of nature. Original.

Product Description: Hailed by scholars as a major breakthrough in the field of myth and psychology, this brilliant new study by Daniel Deardorff proposes that a certain poetic consciousness is generated by those who inhabit societal and psychic margins...read more

Product Description: Anthony Piccione's poetry is deep imagery at its best and most richly developed. The narrator is always the poet himself, under no guise, no persona adopted for the journey. Readers of Robert Bly and James Wright will find and appreciate in Piccione that recognizable voice of everyperson asking his most essential questions, making his most pertinent observations of the human heart in the here and now...read more

Product Description: Norway's Rolf Jacobsen is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers yet, as Robert Bly points out in his introduction: "This magnificent poet is so little known in the United States." This bilingual edition, which selects the best work from Jacobsen's ten volumes, will help remedy that situation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This unique anthology gathers work by eighty poets inspired by Emily Dickinson. Beginning with Hart Crane's 1927 poem “To Emily Dickinson” and moving forward through the century to such luminary figures as Archibald MacLeish, John Berryman, Yvor Winters, Adrienne Rich, Richard Eberhart, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, Amy Clampitt, William Stafford, and Galway Kinnell, Visiting Emily offers both a celebration of and an homage to one of the world's great poets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

With an awardwinning poet as guest editor, a perennially popular collection of poetry offers 1999's seventyfive finest poems drawn from a variety of sources, including works by John Ashberry, Anne Carson, amd Richard Wilbur, and featuring each poet's commentary on their work. Simultaneous. 40,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Collects thirty poems by the renowned Indian poet and introduces the ghazal, a poetic form that comes from the Muslim tradition

Product Description: Other titles by Pablo Neruda available from Consortium:The Book of Questions (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-041-5 PB • 1-55659-040-7 HCCeremonial Songs (Latin American Literary Review Press), 0-935480-80-3 PBNeruda at Isla Negra (White Pine Press), 1-877727-83-0 PBNeruda’s Garden (Latin American Literary Review Press), 0-935480-68-4 PBThe Sea and the Bells (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-019-9 PBThe Separate Rose (Copper Canyon Press), 0-914742-88-4 PBStill Another Day (Copper Canyon Press), 0-914742-77-9 PBStones of the Sky (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-007-5 PB • 1-55659-006-7 HCWinter Garden, (Copper Canyon Press), 0-914742-93-0 PB • 0-914742-99-X HCYellow Heart, (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-029-6 P...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores the feminine by examining the psychological revelations in the world's folklore