Critical essays on Robert Bly /
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| Imprint: | New York : G.K. Hall ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992. |
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| Description: | xiii, 304 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical essays on American literature. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1409254 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / William V. Davis
- Preliminaries. North of Jamaica / Louis Simpson. Thinking About Robert Bly / William Matthews. Young Bly / Donald Hall. Inward to the World: The Poetry of Robert Bly / William Heyen
- Reviews. Four Voices in Recent American Poetry / Ralph J. Mills, Jr. Poetry Chronicle {Review of Silence in the Snowy Fields} / Richard Howard. Two Languages / Harriet Zinnes. A Sadness for America / Paul Zweig. Jeremiads at Half-Mast / Robert Mazzocco. Brief Reviews {Review of The Teeth Mother Naked at Last} / Michael Heffernan. Bly: Man, Voice and Poem / Anthony Piccione. Where They All Are Sleeping / Joyce Carol Oates. Books {Review of The Morning Glory} / Stanley Plumly. This Book Is Made of Turkey Soup and Star Music / Philip Dacey. {Review of This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years} / Anonymous. {Review of The Man in the Black Coat Turns} / Charles Molesworth. Sepia Photographs and Jazz Solos / Fred Chappell. Robert Bly and the Trouble with American Poetry / Roger Mitchell. The Poetry of Robert Bly / Robert Richman. Minnesota Transcendentalist / Joyce Peseroff. Robert Bly {Review of Selected Poems} / Askold Melnyczuk. Robert Bly's Iron John and the New "Lawrentian" Man / Stephen Kuusisto
- Essays. Back to the Snowy Fields / Wayne Dodd. The Live World / Paul A. Lacey. Robert Bly Alive in Darkness / Anthony Libby. Robert Bly's Sleepers Joining Hands: Shadow and Self / Michael Atkinson. Tiny Poems / Howard Nelson. "The Body with the Lamp Lit Inside": Robert Bly's New Poems / Ralph J. Mills, Jr. Domesticating the Sublime: Bly's Latest Poems / Charles Molesworth. From Silence to Subversion: Robert Bly's Political Surrealism / Walter Kalaidjian. A Sensible Emptiness: Robert Bly and the Poetics of Immanence / Lawrence Kramer. Nature, Human Nature, and Gott-Natur: Robert Bly in the Seventies / Richard P. Sugg. The Man in the Black Coat Turns and Loving a Woman in Two Worlds / William V. Davis. Captain Bly / Ted Solotaroff
- Overviews and Conclusions. Which Way to the Future? / Robert Rehder. The Startling Journeys of Robert Bly / Peter Stitt. Redefining the American Poet / Richard P. Sugg.