Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... The House of Belonging (1997)di David Whyte
Nessuno Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Moments of simple beauty– but episodes as well that felt as if I'd been dropped into a self-help manual. ( ) David Whyte actually made/makes money taking poetry (Dante particularly) into corporations to help move leadership teams out of ruts. Crazy huh? Yes. But he did it and did it successfully. His focus was on the ability of some poetry to move people spiritually. I found this bit on youtube that gives you a taste of what he was doing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO0OjtThqyI He has a peculiar, though effective, repetitive way of reading poetry that you get a taste of at 2:25 and 5:35 of that video. Ok, so he found a way to make money reading the poetry of others and applying it to crises/needs in organizations. My impression is that he did these presentations and then made a recording of them and then wrote a book based on them but I could have the sequence wrong. The book "The Heart Aroused" is on amazon but I don't see that the tapes/cds are. I have no idea when he started writing poetry. Again from the bio on his website it appears that he started writing/publishing poetry first and then did the corporate bit if one goes by the publication of books about the corporate approach. But the publisher of all of his poetry is essentially his own promotional company, Many Rivers Press, which also handles his speaking engagements. The House of Belonging doesn't have a list of prior publication credits because it hasn't been through the usual editorial process of submission/acceptance in poetry journals. He self-publishes. Perhaps someone else revies/comments on his poetry, but I would say the poems in this book suffer from the lack of running through the literary guantlet to be honed/rejected. The result is a very uneven collection. The beginning of the book strikes me as being written by someone who wants to be a guru more than a poet. The poems do more telling than showing and are painfully enjambed. From "At Home": the sky a broad roof for the house of contentment where I wish to live forever in the eternity of my own fleeting and momentary happiness. It may be I've been too indoctrinated by current literary convention but I wanted to yell "concrete!" and in many cases "cut this!" Especially that last in the poem "The Winter of Listening," which has three pages of this: Even with summer so far off I feel it grown in me now and ready to arrive in the world. All those years listening to those who had nothing to say. And in my opinion could all be scrapped but the last page: And here in the tumult of the night I hear the walnut above the child's swing swaying its dark limbs in the wind and the rain now come to beat against my window and somewhere in this cold night of wind and stars the first whispered opening of those hidden and invisible springs that uncoil in the still summer air each yet to be imagined rose. Yes, a rather cliched batch of imagery (and still that crazy enjambment) but still lovely and at least imagery. To be honest, I was tempted to stop reading, but I didn't and I'm glad I didn't because things got better (except for the enjambment, which I got used to). I have to say his poem "Four Horses" now resides with other favorite horse poems ("The Names of Horses," "She Had Some Horses" and "The Blessing"). Here are a couple of stanzas: I find myself wanting to run down First Street like an eight year old saying, "Hey! Come and look at the new horses in Fossek's field!" And I find myself wanting to ride into the last hours of this summer bareback and happy as the hooves of the days that drum toward me. I consider his best poems in the book "Tienamen [spelled incorrectly in the book] (The Man in Front of the Tank)" and "Edward" the best poems in the book. The first is not what it would seem and the set up creates a brilliant contrast. The second is a wonderful poem about friendship and how it both changes and stays the same over large spaces of time and physical distance. I'm going to keep this book for its successes but I wish he would find someone hard-nosed to edit his work. I'll leave you with a link to him reading one of his poems in this volume that does a fairly good job of wedding imagery and soul experience (note that it was read at a psychotherapy conference): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PK3GhnHOJc&feature=related I'm not someone who loves or really understands poetry at all, and I came to David Whyte through seeing him read (recite, really) live in about early 02, I think. The poems in this book have come to mean so much to me that I have portions of them tattooed on my body. I think this is his best work, although I love certain of the poems in his other books. This one speaks to me most deeply. And permanently, lol. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Elenchi di rilievo
This is David Whyte's fourth book of poetry Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessuno
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)821.914Literature English English poetry 1900- 1900-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |