Bly, Robert [Elwood]
Bly, Robert [Elwood]( 1926– ),Minnesota-born poet, whose first volume, Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962), contains spare poems of the native farm scene in which he continues to live, direct but also marked by striking imagery. The poems in The Light Around the Body (1967) differ in that some are more mystical, others more political in his intense hatred of the Vietnam War. The work was selected for a National Book Award, and Bly gave the prize money to an anti-draft organization. Later numerous poems, some prose poems, appear in more than 30 separate works, including: Chrysanthemums (1967), Water Under the Earth (1972), Sleepers Joining Hands (1973), Point Reyes Poems (1973), Old Man Rubbing His Eyes (1975), This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood (1977), Counting Small Boned Bodies (1979), This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years (1979), News of the...
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