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Presenting the full magnitude of Robert Bly’s body of work for the first time, Collected Poems is a fresh view of his lifelong achievement. Every stage of Bly’s work is warmed by his devotion to the art of poetry and his affection for the varied worlds that inform his poems. From his imagistic debut, Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962), to his National Book Award-winning The Light Around the Body (1967), to his transcendent latest, Talking into the Ear of a Donkey (2011), Bly is a truth-teller and a fearless explorer of the human dilemma. Collected Poems makes clear why poets and lovers of poetry have long looked to Bly for emotional authenticity, moral authority, and artistic inspiration.
Presenting the full magnitude of Robert Bly’s body of work for the first time, Collected Poems is a fresh view of his lifelong achievement. Every stage of Bly’s work is warmed by his devotion to the art of poetry and his affection for the varied worlds that inform his poems. From his imagistic debut, Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962), to his National Book Award-winning The Light Around the Body (1967), to his transcendent latest, Talking into the Ear of a Donkey (2011), Bly is a truth-teller and a fearless explorer of the human dilemma. Collected Poems makes clear why poets and lovers of poetry have long looked to Bly for emotional authenticity, moral authority, and artistic inspiration.
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