The Night Abraham Called to the Stars

Robert Bly's new collection of poetry is made of forty-eight poems written in the intricate form called the ghazal, which is the central poetic form in Islam. The influence of Hafez and Rumi is clear, and yet the poems descend into the wealth of Western history, referring at times to Monet, Giordano Bruno,Emerson, St. Francis, Newton, and Chekhov, as well as to events in Bly's own life. The leaping between joy and "ruin" produces a poetry which makes him, as Kenneth Rexroth noted, "one of the leaders in a poetic revival which has returned American literature to the world community."

The Night Abraham Called to the Stars	p. 1
The Wildebeest	p. 3
Jerez at Easter	p. 5
Giordano Bruno and the Muddy Footprint	p. 7
Moses' Cradle	p. 9
The Dead of Shiloh	p. 11
When We Became Lovers	p. 13
Monet's Haystacks	p. 15
What Kept Horace Alive	p. 17
The Love from Far Away	p. 19
Eudalia and Plato	p. 21
The Trap-Door	p. 23
Hannibal and Robespierre	p. 25
Walking Backward	p. 27
Wanting to Steal Time	p. 29
Calderon	p. 31
The Wagon and the Cliff	p. 33
Forgiving the Mailman	p. 35
The Way the Parrot Learns	p. 37
Rembrandt's Portrait of Titus with a Red Hat	p. 39
Nikos and His Donkey	p. 41
Pitzeem and the Mare	p. 43
The Country Roads	p. 45
Iseult and the Badger	p. 47
In Praise of Scholars	p. 49
The Fish in the Window	p. 51
Montserrat	p. 53
The French Generals	p. 55
The Battle at Ypres, 1915	p. 57
The Raft of Green Logs	p. 59
The Five Inns	p. 61
The Baal Shem and Francis Bacon	p. 63
Natchez Inns	p. 65
The Cabbages of Chekhov	p. 67
The Eel in the Cave	p. 69
Rembrandt's Etchings	p. 71
The Cardinal's Cry	p. 73
The Old St. Peter by Rembrandt	p. 75
Why Is It the Spark's Fault?	p. 77
Augustine on His Ship	p. 79
The Difficult Word	p. 81
Testifying to the Night	p. 83
The Storyteller's Way	p. 85
How This Wealth Came to Be	p. 87
Noah Watching the Rain	p. 89
Listening	p. 91
So Be It. Amen	p. 93
Dawn	p. 95
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