The Light Around the Body
by Robert Bly
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The Light Around the Body launched Robert Bly's career as a prominent poet. It won the National Book Award, set a standard for the antiwar poetry of the period, and became a kind of anthem of the sixties. It contains such famous poems as "Johnson's Cabinet Watched by Ants," "Driving Through Minnesota During the Hanoi Raids," and follows Bly's characteristic journey from the outward world to the inward one. The poems of directly confronted grief and despair give way in the final section to show more such poems as "Looking into a face" and The hermit" that explore the moods and visions, images, dreams and myths of his capacious psyche, the stones that his imagination drops into the pools of his soul. - Back cover. show lessTags
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I picked this up in a mini-survey of 'deep image' poets. Many of the poems were difficult to access because they were deeply concerned with contemporary politics and the historical moment when they were written; I had a better time with the poems that dealt with death, artistic renewal and other universal themes, where the imagery could find more space to resonate in this 2008 reader.
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