Eating the Honey of Words
New and Selected Poems
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 16, 2000
"Bly's imaginative prose poems radiate witty delight." — Library Journal A brilliant collection spanning half a century, from one of America's most powerful poets.
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- Who it’s for
- Robert Bly brings selected poems from across decades together with a complete section of new work.
- Themes
- Fresh perspectives
- Genres
- American Poetry
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"Bly's imaginative prose poems radiate witty delight." — Library Journal A brilliant collection spanning half a century, from one of America's most powerful poets. Robert Bly had many roles in his illustrious career. He was a chronicler and mentor of young poets, was a leader of the antiwar movement, founded the men's movement, and wrote the bestselling book Iron John, which brought the men's movement to the attention of the world.
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Throughout these activities, Bly continued to deepen his own poetry, a vigorous voice in a period of more academic wordsmiths. Here he has presented his favorite poems of the last decades-timeless classics from Silence in the Snowy Fields, The Man in the Black Coat Turns, and Loving a Woman in Two Worlds. A complete section of marvelous new poems rounds out this collection, which offers a chance to reread, in a fresh setting, a lifetime of work dedicated to fresh perspectives.
Bly’s Selected Poems
Robert Bly brings selected poems from across decades together with a complete section of new work.
Come here for
- Favorite poems from Bly’s earlier collections
- A section of new poems
Expect
- Poems from Silence in the Snowy Fields
- A fresh setting for work spanning Bly’s career
Where it sits
| American Poetry | 92% |
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Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Women's Fiction
- American Fiction
- Women Authors Collections
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- American Poetry
- Love Poetry
- Nature Poetry
- Place Poetry
- Authors
- Robert Bly
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- May 16, 2000
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Fresh perspectives
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction