Bly, Robert (Vol. 2) - Bly, Robert 1926–
Bly, Robert 1926–
A Midwestern American poet and publisher, Bly directs the Seventies Press and has been responsible for introducing many South American writers to a North American audience. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
[Bly] is a poet of Western space, solitude, and silence. He writes poems about driving a car through Ohio, hunting pheasants, watering a horse, getting up early in the morning, and watching Minnesota cornfields, lakes, and woods under the siege of rain, snow, and sun. His distinction in treating these subjects lies in the freshness of his "deep images," which invest the scene he describes with an intense subjectivity and a feeling of the irremediable loneliness of man, who can never make contact with the things of the world….
Robert Bly's theory and practice cohere. His poetic voice is clear, quiet, and appealing, and it has the resonance that only powerful pressures at great depths can...
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