The Lion's Tail and Eyes: Poems Written Out of Laziness and Silence
AUTHORS
Robert Bly, James Wright, William Duffy
This is a facsimile edition of the original Sixties Press book issued in 1962 and contains some of Robert Bly's and James Wright's iconic poems.
Reviews
"An unusual, exciting volume which serves ideally to lead readers into the extraordinary creative world of three Minnesota poets who are familiar with the contemporary poetry of several nations and who together are bringing to American poetry a powerful new direction away from academicism. Poetry which experiments with content rather than with form and whose life does not depend upon the metrics but upon the life of the poet himself. "
—John Logan
William Duffy is associate professor of English and coordinator of the Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication Program at the University of Memphis. His scholarship has been published in Rhetoric Review, Composition Studies, College English, and Present Tense, as well as in various edited collections.
James Arlington Wright was an American lyric poet in the post-World War II decades. He often wrote about his experience of Depression-era poverty in the Midwest. His Collected Poems won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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.