This volume, for the first time, collects all of Bly's prose poems he has chosen to include in a significant volume arranged by him. The collection includes over 100 prose poems, written over a period of five decades, includes the bulk of the landsmark out of print volumes: The Morning Glory Poems, This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood, and What Have I Ever Lost by Dying along with uncollected poems, and new material. Robert Bly has been one of the leading writers of the prose poem since the reemergence of the form in the 1960s.
Robert Bly is one of the leading poets of his generation and has been publishing for six decades. In addition he is a noted translator and has been instrumental in introducing new international voices to U.S. audience. His recent books include Eating the Honey of Words: Selected Poems and My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy.
“Joyous, inspired meditations that demonstrate Bly’s talent for conveying in the simplest language the richness and complexity of the universe around us.”
— Library Journal.
