What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems

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HarperCollins, 1992 - Poetry - 90 pages
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Iron John comes the first complete collection of his moving and evocative prose poems. In each of these brief pieces, Bly brings natural life and human life together with his inimitable gift of language, gently reflecting on the human condition and modern life.

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Contents

November Day at McClures Beach
3
Two Sounds When We Sit by the Ocean
9
Coming In for Supper
17
Copyright

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ants arms barn bird Blue Heron body BOX TURTLE brown CATERPILLAR Chunk of Amethyst cliff climb color comes cottonwood curls dark dead death Dickinson house door earth edge eyes falls feathers feel feet fingers float floor Fog Horns Francis Ponge George Hitchcock goalie GODWIT gone grain grass hair hand head hold hole hollow hurry inside Kayak knees labors legs lichen lifts light look Mary Bly moon Morning Glory mother mountain night ocean Octopus Oyster pale paper lanterns Plows Poems of Francis porcupine Port Townsend potato puck rain rise Robert Bly Rock Crab rolling rose sailing SALAMANDER sand says seaweed Selected Poems shell shore silence skin snow souls sound stands starfish stick stones tail thing thumb tree turns Twenty Poems underside Visiting Emily Dickinson's waiting walk walls waves wind wings woman

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About the author (1992)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleWhat Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems
AuthorRobert Bly
PublisherHarperCollins, 1992
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 4, 2008
ISBN006016817X, 9780060168179
Length90 pages
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Poetry / American / General
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