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Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations

Bly, Robert · Boston: Beacon Press, ; first published in The Seventies · 1975

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Joseph Fasano points the book towards Robert Bly’s idea of the poetic leap: a connection that is felt before it is explained, and that needs a lived mind to leap from.

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Bly, Robert. Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975; first published in The Seventies, 1972. (Conceptual debt, via Joseph Fasano: the 'leap' between conscious and unconscious thought.)