American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity

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Harper & Row, 1990 - Literary Criticism - 341 pages
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A Wrong Turning in American Poetry
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David Ignatow and the Dark City
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American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity
Robert Bly
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About the author (1990)

Robert Bly lives on a farm in his native state of Minnesota. He edited The Seventies magazine, which he founded as The Fifties and in the next decade called The Sixties. In 1966, with David Ray, he organized American Writers Against the Vietnam War. The Light Around the Body, which won the National Book Award in 1968, was strongly critical of the war in Vietnam and of American foreign policy. Since publication of Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), a response to the women's movement, Bly has been immensely popular, appearing on talk shows and advising men to retrieve their primitive masculinity through wildness. Bly is also a translator of Scandinavian literature, such as Twenty Poems of Tomas Transtromer. Through the Sixties Press and the Seventies Press, he introduced little-known European and South American poets to American readers. His magazines have been the center of a poetic movement involving the poets Donald Hall, Louis Simpson, and James Wright.

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TitleAmerican Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity
AuthorRobert Bly
PublisherHarper & Row, 1990
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMay 30, 2008
ISBN0060162651, 9780060162658
Length341 pages
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Literary Criticism / Poetry
Poetry / General
  
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