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Robert Bly
Robert Bly lives in Madison, Minnesota. His book of poetry, The Light Around the Body, won the National Book Award in 1968. Other books he’s written include This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood, Sleepers Joining Hands, and The Morning Glory.
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Witch, The Swan, And The Middle Class
I’m not praising the middle class, but we are returning to the problem of why so many of our poems carry no values except private ones. I think the universities have had a part in this. One could say that the M.F.A. programs de-class a young poet.
July 1982
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
News Of The Universe
Poems Of Twofold Consciousness
This book asks one question over and over: how much consciousness is the poet willing to grant to trees or hills or living creatures not a part of his own species?
February 1981
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
An Evening With Robert Bly
Every poet, when he grows up in this country, has to face that issue. Is he going to go with the English or is he going to go against them? It takes a long time to fight that out. I, myself, was with the English three or four years after I got out of college. I was writing sonnets.
July 1978
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