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Book SynopsisCelebrating one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century
Trade Review"I had never even heard Rumi’s name before attending Robert Bly’s Great Mother Conference in 1976. . . . As he handed me my copy, he said, ‘These poems need to be released from their cages.’"—Coleman Barks
"Robert Bly’s antiwar poetry . . . engages in mental combat so as to depress the corporeal. I deeply believe that there are men and women my age who are alive today because we had people like Robert doing that work in the sixties."—Lewis Hyde
"We do what we must to keep the earth alive and our own species awake to its own full nature, for our own rescue and joy, and for the rescue and joy of those who will follow. This is the vow Robert Bly has always embodied, living as he has in sentinel alertness."—Jane Hirshfield
Table of ContentsContents
Preface - James P. Lenfestey
Introduction - Thomas R. Smith
Lessons from Robert Bly’s Barn - Lewis Hyde
Shadows on the Prairie: Where the Gift Gathers - Patricia Kirkpatrick
Birth of a Revolution: The Fifties - William Duffy
Under the Sign of Odin: Robert Bly’s Wild Little Magazine - Mark Gustafson
Bly and Wright: A Passionate Poem - Anne Wright
Antonio Machado’s Eyeglasses: The Influence of Robert Bly’s Translations on American Poetry - Ray Gonzalez
So Much Happens When No One Is Watching - Daniel Deardorff
Small Engine Repair: Thirty-five Years of the Annual Conference on the Great Mother and the New Father, Organized by Robert Bly - John Rosenwald
Notes and Pieces on Speaking Poems and Stories, Learning by Heart - Gioia Timpanelli
A Little Book Project with Robert Bly - William Booth
Praising the Soul in Women and Men: Robert Bly and the Men’s Movement - Thomas R. Smith
Robert Bly: Still Taking on the Wor(l)d - Victoria Frenkel Harris
Robert Bly’s Poetry: The Later Years - Howard Nelson
Robert Bly in the Shadow of Hafiz - Leonard Lewisohn
Releasing Birds to the Air (and two poems) - Coleman Barks
Appendix I
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Contributor Notes
