Reaching Out to the World: New and Selected Prose Poems
AUTHOR
Robert Bly
This volume, for the first time, collects all of Bly's prose poems he has chosen to include in a significant volume arranged by him. The collection includes over 100 prose poems, written over a period of five decades, includes the bulk of the landsmark out of print volumes: The Morning Glory Poems, This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood, and What Have I Ever Lost by Dying along with uncollected poems, and new material. Robert Bly has been one of the leading writers of the prose poem since the reemergence of the form in the 1960s.
Reviews
No reviews available yet.
Robert Bly (1926 - 2021) had a profound impact on the shape of American poetry. He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and essays. As the editor of the magazine The Sixties (begun as The Fifties), Bly introduced many unknown European and South American poets to an American audience. His honors include Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as The Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. His recent books include Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life, Looking for Dragon Smoke and Collected Poems.