Selected Poems - Softcover

Bly, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060960485 ISBN 13: 9780060960483

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1991

Synopsis

Represents a collection of the poet's best work, selected from his eight previous collections, and includes a commentary on the development of his oeuvre

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Aban Kavost And Ivar Oakeson
After Drinking All Night With A Friend
After Long Busyness
After Working
The Ant Mansion
Ants
As The Asian War Begins
Asian Peace Offers Rejected Without Publication
At A March Against The Vietnam War (later Version)
At Midocean
At The Time Of Peony Blossoming
August Rain
Awakening
A Bouquet Of Ten Roses
Calm Day At Drake' Bay
A Caterpillar
Chinese Tomb Guardians
Christmas Eve Service At Midnight At St. Michael's
A Conversation
Conversation With A Holy Woman Not Seen For Many Years
Cornpicker Poem
Counting Small-boned Bodies
Crazy Carlson's Meadow
The Cry Going Out Over Pastures
The Danger Of Loss
Dawn In Threshing Time
The Dead Seal Near Mcclure's Beach
December 23, 1926
Defeated
Digging Worms
A Dream Of A Brother
A Dream Of Retarded Children
A Dream Of What Is Missing
A Dream On The Night Of First Snow
The Dried Sturgeon (version B)
Driving Through Minnesota During The Hanoi Bombings
Driving Toward The Lac Qui Parle River
Early Spring Between Madison And Bellingham
An Empty Place
An Evening When The Full Moon Rose As The Sun Set
The Executive's Death
Falling Asleep
Ferns
Fifty Males Sitting Together
Finding The Father
The Fire Of Despair Has Been Our Saviour
For My Son Noah, Ten Years Old
Four Seasons In American Woods, Sels.
Four Ways Of Knowledge
Four Ways Of Knowledge: 3
Getting Up Late
Glimpse Of The Waterer
Gone, Gone, Gone
The Good Silence
Grass From Two Years
Hatred Of Men With Black Hair
The Hawk
The Hockey Poem
A Hollow Tree
A Home In Dark Grass
The Horse Of Desire
Hunting Pheasants In A Cornfield
In Mourning For Betrayal
In Rainy September
In The Month Of May
The Indigo Bunting
Johnson's Cabinet Watched By Ants
July Morning
Kennedy's Inauguration (version B)
Kneeling Down To Peer Into A Culvert
Late Moon
Letter To Her
Listening To The Koln Concert
The Loon's Cry
Love Poem In Twos And Threes
The Man Locked Inside The Oak
A Man Writes To A Part Of Himself
A Meditation On Philosophy
Mourning Pablo Neruda
My Father's Wedding: 1924
Near The Giant's House
Night
Night Frogs
Night Of First Snow
November Day At Mcclure's Beach
Old Boards
On A Ferry Across Chesapeake Bay
Opening The Door Of A Barn I Thought Was Empty ...
The Orchard Keeper
The Origin Of The Praise Of God
Out Of The Rolling Ocean, The Crowd
Out Picking Up Corn
Pilgrim Fish Heads
Poems In Three Parts: 1
Poems In Three Parts: 2
Poems In Three Parts: 3
Praise For All Dancers
The Prodigal Son
Reading In Fall Rain
Romans Angry About The Inner World
Schoolcraft's Diary Written On The Missouri: 1830
Sitting On Some Rocks In Shaw Cove
Six Winter Privacy Poems: 1
Six Winter Privacy Poems: 2
Six Winter Privacy Poems: 3
Six Winter Privacy Poems: 4. On Meditation
Six Winter Privacy Poems: 5. Listening To Bach
Six Winter Privacy Poems: 6
Snow Geese
Snowbanks North Of The House
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 1
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 2
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 3
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 4
Solitude Late At Night In The Woods: 1
Solitude Late At Night In The Woods: 2
Solitude Late At Night In The Woods: 3
The Starfish
Surprised By Evening
The Teeth Mother Naked At Last
A Third Body
Three Kinds Of Pleasures
Two Sounds When We Sit By The Ocean
Uneasiness In Fall
The Upward Moon And The Downward Moon
Visiting The Farallones
Waking From Sleep
Walking Swiftly
War And Silence
The Watcher
Watering The Horse
We Love This Body
When The Dumb Speak
Where We Must Look For Help
Winter Poem
The Woman Bewildered
Words Rising
Let Me Look Back Upon Thee. O Thou Wall
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Library Journal:

One of the outstanding poets, translators, and critics of our time, Bly has an insured place as a major figure in American poetry. A special vision unfolds in Selected Poems as Bly introduces the reader to his work through brief essays charting the poems chronologically from The Lute of Three Loudnesses , his attempt to "learn the melodic line English poets developed" while keeping "out despair he couldn't quite bring into the house," to his recent Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (Doubleday, 1985), poems that still ask for every "bit of musicianship we have." Through the essays and poems Bly's public voice unfoldsanti-Vietnam War, modern mythmaker, Jungian. He also explains his approaches to meter and metaphor. A good introduction to Bly and essential for modern poetry collections. Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, English Dept., Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0060960485
• ISBN 13: 9780060960483
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 213