In this Book
- Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
summary
The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now—these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead the simple statement that in nine lines can embody a mood, reveal a profound truth, illuminate in an important way the inward and hidden life. This is a poet of the modern world, thoroughly aware of the complexities of the moment but equally mindful of the great stream of life—all life—of which mankind is only a part.
Table of Contents
Download Full Book
- Eleven Poems of Solitude
- RETURN TO SOLITUDE
- p. 12
- WAKING FROM SLEEP
- p. 13
- SURPRISED BY EVENING
- p. 15
- SUNSET AT A LAKE
- p. 17
- APPROACHING WINTER
- p. 19
- POEM IN THREE PARTS
- p. 21
- Awakening
- DRIVING THROUGH OHIO
- p. 33
- DEPRESSION
- p. 37
- GETTING UP EARLY
- p. 39
- "TAKING THE HANDS"
- p. 42
- AFTERNOON SLEEP
- p. 43
- WATERING THE HORSE
- p. 46
- IN A TRAIN
- p. 47
- Silence on the Roads
- AFTER WORKING
- p. 51
- LAZINESS AND SILENCE
- p. 53
- OLD BOARDS
- p. 57
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819571830
Related ISBN(s)
9780819520159
MARC Record
OCLC
48139840
Pages
60
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No