Editing Deep image (section)

{{Short description|Poetry}}
'''Deep image''' is a term coined by U.S. poets [[Jerome Rothenberg]] and [[Robert Kelly (poet)|Robert Kelly]] in the second issue of the magazine ''Trobar'' in 1961.<ref>[http://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/content/kevin-bushell-leaping-unknown-poetics-robert-blys-deep-image Leaping Into the Unknown: The Poetics of Robert Bly's Deep Image]</ref><ref>The term was first used by Robert Kelly in his essay "Notes on the Poetry of Deep Image" which appeared in Trobar 2, see [http://www.colby.edu/personal/i/isadoff/cap/Ullman.doc Ullman, Leslie, “Deep Imagists: The Subconscious as Medium” (Word doc)].</ref> They used the term to describe poetry written by [[Diane Wakoski]], [[Clayton Eshleman]], and themselves.

In creating the term, Rothenberg was inspired by the [[Spanish literature|Spanish]] ''[[cante jondo]]'' ("deep song"), especially the work of [[Federico García Lorca]] and by the [[Symbolism (movement)|symbolist]] theory of [[correspondence theory of truth|correspondences]].

In general, deep image poems are resonant, stylized and heroic in tone. Longer poems tend to be catalogues of free-standing images.

The deep image group was short-lived in the manner that Kelly and Rothenberg defined.

It was later redeveloped by [[Robert Bly]] and used by many, such as [[Galway Kinnell]] and [[James Wright (poet)|James Wright]]. The redevelopment relied on being concrete, not abstract, and to let the images make the experience and to let the images and experience generate the meanings. This new style of Deep Image tended to be narrative, but was often lyrical.<ref>For more on Bly's take on the Deep Image see [http://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/content/kevin-bushell-leaping-unknown-poetics-robert-blys-deep-image Bushell, Kevin, "Leaping Into the Unknown: The Poetics of Robert Bly's Deep Image"]</ref>