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but they also have images,
Deploring the sober rationalism and ‘objectivity’ of modern American poetry, Robert Bly writes: ‘Lorca’s poems have many things in them sharply observed (“black doves puttering the putrid waters”), but they also have images, also passion, wild leaps, huge arsenic lobsters falling out of the sky.’
ex a passage on the incompatible, opposite orientations of “outward” — “no ideas but in things,” “extinguishing the personality” — and “inward” — Rilke’s “go into yourself” — in
“A Wrong Turning in American Poetry,” a 1965 essay by Robert Bly,
collected in his American Poetry : Wildness and Domesticity (1990) : 7-35 (13)
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