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by Robert Bly

ISBN: 0952279800
ISBN13: 978-0952279808
Language: English
Publisher: Weatherlight Press; New Ed edition (October 1994)
Pages: 97
Category: Poetry
Subategory: Literature

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Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement. Robert Bly was born in western Minnesota in 1926 to parents of Norwegian stock. He enlisted in the Navy in 1944 and spent two years there.

Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement. After one year at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, he transferred to Harvard and thereby joined the famous group of writers who were undergraduates at that time, which Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.

1994, Weatherlight Press.

American Prose poems. 1994, Weatherlight Press.

Prose poetry is still a somewhat seldom sight to see in contemporary poetry and in the mainstream, remains a relatively enigmatic genre. Robert Bly's prose poems evoke the senses to a more natural setting, drawing the senses towards the works of Frost and the olde Romantics. This work is contemporary and each description is like droplets of blood falling off the side of a rare steak: from the caterpillars to the octopus, the curiosity of children and saintly prayers.

1926 -/American Robert Bly was born in western Minnesota in 1926 to parents of. .Badgers carry the papers on their fur To their den, where the entire family dies in the night

1926 -/American Robert Bly was born in western Minnesota in 1926 to parents of Norwegian stock. Robert Bly. What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems by Robert Bly. k. Badgers carry the papers on their fur To their den, where the entire family dies in the night. A chorus girl stands for hours behind her curtains Looking out at the street. In a window of a trucking service There is a branch painted white.

Complete summary of Robert Bly's What Have I Ever Lost by Dying. This collection of prose poems by Robert Bly - poet, translator and author of the best-selling IRON JOHN - is drawn from those he has written during the past thirty years

Complete summary of Robert Bly's What Have I Ever Lost by Dying. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of What Have I Ever Lost by Dying. This collection of prose poems by Robert Bly - poet, translator and author of the best-selling IRON JOHN - is drawn from those he has written during the past thirty years. The poems are organized into five sections, including The Point Reyes Poems, Family Poems, Objects and Creatures Glanced at Briefly, Love Poems, and Looking for the Rat’s Hole.

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American writer Robert Bly is regarded as one of the legends of contemporary poetry . Robert Bly: Essential American Poets. What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1992.

American writer Robert Bly is regarded as one of the legends of contemporary poetry, according to David Biespel, the prototypical non-modernist the one who set in motion a poetics of intensity for generations to come. The author of dozens of books of poetry and translation, Bly’s work is based in the natural world, the visionary, and the realm of the irrational. From Essential American PoetsDecember 2010.

Robert Bly is a poet who has been around for a long time, but I discovered him only recently. What Have I Ever Lost by Dying" is a collection of his beautiful, rich prose poems. Bly is a master of intimate observation

Robert Bly is a poet who has been around for a long time, but I discovered him only recently. Bly is a master of intimate observation.

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Kage

Robert Bly is a poet who has been around for a long time, but I discovered him only recently. "What Have I Ever Lost by Dying" is a collection of his beautiful, rich prose poems. Bly is a master of intimate observation. With sharp, exquisite language he illuminates the strange and the beautiful, both human and non-human.

Velan

"What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?" contains about seventy prose poems which cover a variety of subjects but especially center on nature poems and contemplations on plants (a meditation on a lichen plant, for one) and animals (a dying seal, several bird poems). All of these poems are enjoyable and present the subjects in interesting lights, but I felt that they were not particularly clever poems and didn't really challenge the way I see things or present their subjects in new lights. They are rather conventional poems. There is a take on a hockey game that is fun, and I particularly liked his poem "Warning to the Reader," which describes a bird trying to get out of a grain silo and then compares the bird to readers of poetry, stuck in the silo of tricky definitions and ending up "hunched in the corner with nothing in their gizzards for four days, light failing, the eyes glazed..." This nifty little turnaround makes for a fun poem, but this kind of trick ending is all too rare in this collection. Bly's work is enjoyable, and it's worth reading, but there's better to be had. Try Earle Stone's "Song of the Toad" for 500 haiku, where there are hundreds of nature poems for your reading pleasure. Maybe it's the medium, prose poetry, but this collection plods where is should soar.

the monster

I enjoy Bly's translations and anthologies; therefore, I try his poetry ... this time, only to be disappointed. And from his introduction to the early poems, I suspect he detects the same flaw as I. He says "When I composed the first of these poems, ... I hoped that a writer could describe and object or a creature without claiming it, without immersing it like a negative in his developing tank of disappointment and desire. I no longer think that is possible". He later mentions that the style of the object poems is usually spare - that he is unusual in accepting the human fantasy that closes many of his poems.
Despite the warnings, Bly's style in this poems appears inconsistent - he begins in the concrete but quickly dissolves into intellectual images i.e. images that display a highly creative, broadly educated intellect that has gone into itself rather than staying in the concrete moment that began the poem. The result is a poem in which the poet seems centered neither in the poem nor the object of the poem but rather in his own mind.
There are some wonderful images, some superb turns of phrase, some excellent reinterpretations of unlikely topics (see his take on hockey) but the poems as a whole remain unsatisfying.