Poetry

Code	Name	Price	Description
00301	Bly, Robert Six Powers Of Poetry	$11.95	Bly gives an in-depth discussion of American poetry. He explores its sources of energy, and the properties which poets use to bring words alive with meaning and beauty. - 1983 San Jose - One Audiotape
00302	Bly, Robert Poetry East and West	$18.95	Using his own poetry and that of Kabir, Rilke, Ramone, Frost, Basho, Neruda, Vallejo and the ancient Taoists, Bly illuminates the idea of the unborn mind from the East and the idea of the It from Europe. - 1983 San Francisco - Two Audiotapes
00303	Bly, Robert Fairy Tales	$18.95	Bly narrates for us the original Russian form of Cinderella , which may have been written 5-6,000 years ago, and the Norwegian tale of The Bear King of Alemond. Using these fairy tales he works with ancient themes of man and woman. - 1982 San Francisco - Two Audiotapes
00304	Bly, Robert At The Zen Center	$18.95	There is incredible power in the voice - in a poetry reading, the voice is a tangible thing that vibrates and radiates into the body of the listener - 1983 San Francisco - Two Audiotapes
00305	Bly, Robert Poetry Reading: Ancient Tradition	$18.95	Bly tells us that for the African, a poem is not finished until it is delivered orally. In both Africa and Russian there is an unbroken tradition of poetry reading. Bly carries on this tradition in America. - 1983 Monterey - Two Audiotapes
00306	Bly, Robert Thoughts On Art Of Poetry	$18.95	Bly relates what it is like to be a poet and struggle with the art of poetry. - 1982 San Francisco - Two Audiotapes
00307	Bly, Robert An Evening At Esalen	$18.95	An enjoyable evening full of Bly's reverence and irreverence for life with poetry reading and story telling. - 1982 Esalen - Two Audiotapes
00309	Bly, Robert and Angeles Arrien Love In The Western World	$56.95	Anthropologist Arrien and poet/minstrel Bly give male and female perspectives on the conceptual origins of romantic love. They discuss its continuing influence on relationships today by examining poetry, legends, myth, music and the symbols of love. - 1984 San Francisco - Six Audiotapes
01104	Huxley, Aldous On Language	$11.95	Huxley explores both the liberating and limiting aspects of language in our lives and how language can determine our world views. He talks of the frustration artists and mystics find in using words to express experience, and how we communicate the incommunicable. (Titled Language in 1959) - 1961 Cambridge - One Audiotape
01117	Huxley, Aldous Language	$11.95	Huxley explores both the liberating and limiting aspects of language in our lives and how language can determine our world views. He talks of the frustration artists and mystics find in using words to express experience, and how we communicate the incommunicable. - 1959 Santa Barbara - One Audiotape
01125	Huxley, Aldous Stories And Poems	$11.95	Huxley reads from his works: The Dwarfs from Crome Yellow; Sermons in Cats from Music at Night; The Cicadas, Mediterranean, Carpe Noctem, and Midsummer Day, four poems from The Cicadas. - 1959 Santa Barbara - One Audiotape
02509	Watts, Alan, Alan Ginsberg and Claudio Naranjo The Poetry Of Madness	$18.95	Beat poet Ginsberg gives a fiery poetic presentation of madness; Watts and John Perry, through poetic prose, make comprehensible the fluid, non-ordinary nature of madness as a means to growth and integration. Naranjo warns against embracing wild madness uncritically. - 1968 Esalen - Two Audiotapes
05106	Steindl-Rast, Br. David Enjoying Poetry	$36.95	What is the point of poetry? Through discussion and poetry reading, Br. David illuminates how artists and poets capture that still point, when we feel particularly in touch with the source of the design of life, when everything makes sense, when for one moment we are really present, when the whole dance of life seems to be contained in this particular point. A good poem will take you to that still point and give you the language to express imprecise feelings and very subtle realities. - 1992 Esalen - Four Audiotapes
05110	Steindl-Rast, Br. David Addiction and the Spiritual Quest	$11.95	The enormously strong pull of addictions can have surprising commonalities with a spiritual quest. Using poetry and soulful questioning in an engaging interactive format, Brother David explores experiences that are often beyond our control or understanding. - 1987 Esalen - One Audiotape
06101	Jeffers, Robertson A Dramatic Presentation Of The Poetry Of Robinson Jeffers	$18.95	This stirring dramatization offers a wide selection of Jeffers' poetry as well as deep insights on Jeffers, the poet and the man. Narrated by Rex Campbell with presentations by William Everson and Gordon Newell, and written by Elaine Fitzpatrick. - 1972 Carmel.Ca - Two Audiotapes
06103	Jeffers, Robertson William Everson: Poetry Of The Earth - A Tribute To Robinson Jeffers	$11.95	Everson (Brother Antoninus), a poet and ex-Dominican monk, reads from his own writings and Jeffers' works and pays tribute to Jeffers, identifying him as one of the breakthrough poets of the 20th Century, a myth-like figure. - 1970 Monterey, Ca - One Audiotape
10111	Rudhyar, Dana Readings From His Poetry - White Thunder	$11.95	Readings by Rudhyar of his poetry from the book of the same name. - 1970S - One Audiotape
40021	Hoeller, Stephan Rumi - Friend Of God	$11.95	The life and work of beloved Sufi poet Jalauddin Rumi (1207-1273) dramatically manifests what mystics consider our basic purpose in the world: to journey from outward to inward, "to return Creation to its origins." For some mystics, another human being becomes the inspiration of the journey. In each of the three major periods of Rumi's life, a different friend embodied Rumi's genius, leading him to the mystical fulfillment that brought forth his unequaled expressions of Devine love. - 1995 Los Angeles - One Audiotape
CR007	Merton, Thomas Poetry, The Angelic Realm	$11.95	The realm in which the poet moves is the angelic realm ... the world of spirits in complete harmony with matter ... and material creation depends on the presence of these spirits. Using examples from Blake, Auden and other poets, Merton shows how poetic expression achieves the unity between material and spiritual realms that many traditions ascribe to the role of angels. - 1968 Gethsemani, Ky - One Audiotape
06102	Jeffers, Robertson Robert Brophy: The Poems of Robinson Jeffers	$11.95	Brophy, a scholar and critic of Jeffers, talks about the poet and his work in appreciation of his unusual talent. 1969 Monterey - One Audiotape