Robert Bly (1926—2021) was the author of numerous poetry volumes, as well as works of nonfiction and translation. His honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal and the National Book Award.
"Here is the essential Robert Bly, ‘a man in love with the setting
stars,’ a dark transcendentalist, a troublemaker, a mourner who
keeps seeing the walls splashed with blood, a singer of boundless
mysteries, imagination’s keeper, a witness to joy. He has been
lighting up American poetry for more than sixty years."
*Edward Hirsch*
"[T]his selection indelibly presents Bly as the great successor to
Whitman and Pound, with neither the smarmy bonhomie of the former
or the captiousness of the latter…. His labor and delight, early
and late, is now clearly shown to be the demonstration that all
human and nonhuman lives, contexts, and relations are linked by
metaphor, that odd mode of understanding by psychological
projection and sensory imagination. Like the deathbed edition of
Leaves of Grass, this collection is a monument, not to self but to
us."
*Booklist, Starred Review*
"Playful, strange and simultaneously startling… Bly’s poetry prizes
the imagination for its irrationality, which can take us to
beautiful and unexpected places."
*Elizabeth Hoover - Star Tribune*
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