Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems

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S I L E N C E I N T H E S N O W Y F I E L D S This page intentionally left blank Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut Silencejn the Snov^feelcii POEM* m^pteRT «pr j^iBL. Published by Wesleyan University Press Middletown, CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress© 1953,1959,1960, 1961, 1962 by Robert Bly All rights reserved First printing 1962 Printed in the United States of America 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 Library of Congress Number 62-18340 ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-1015-0 1SBN-10: 0-8195-1015-7 All inquiries and permissions requests should be addressed to Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut 06459. Some of these poems have appeared earlier in The Paris Review, Botteghe Oscure, Poetry, T\ie San Francisco Review, New World Writing 15, Critic, Chicago Choice, The Hudson Review, The Nation, New Poets of England and America I, Contemporary American Poetry (Penguin Books), and The Lion's Tail and Eyes. I am indebted to these editors for permission to reprint. "We are all asleep in the outward man." — JACOB BOEHME ...