Bly, Robert (Vol. 5) - Bly, Robert 1926–
Bly, Robert 1926–
An American poet, editor, translator, and founder of the Fifties Press (which became the Sixties Press and which is now, of course, the Seventies Press), Bly has been an influential figure in contemporary poetry. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Bly does not write verses, with all that the word implies of a return, a commitment to a constant; he writes lines, with all that the linear implies of a setting out, a movement in search of a form rather than within a form. (pp. 39-40)
[There is, in The Light Around the Body, Bly's second book,] a numbness or torpor, an inertia so new to art, which by its traditional nature is the celebration of energy, of mastery, that Robert Bly himself is not always certain of its accommodation in his utterance; he suffers and thereby celebrates the inertia of a being who would be saved, redeemed, not because he is he, but because he is here,...
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