Morning Poems
Morning Poems by Robert Bly is a collection published by HarperCollins on April 3, 1997, featuring 128 pages of poetry in English. This first edition presents a unique blend of humor and personal reflection, showcasing Bly’s distinctive voice through a series of poems that explore themes such as the art of poetry, childhood memories from a Minnesota farm, and the myths that shape our understanding of the world.
Readers will find a diverse array of meditations within these pages, including contemplations on aging and the experience of facing death. The poems are crafted with the freshness reminiscent of morning, reflecting Bly’s discipline of writing a poem each day. This collection invites readers to engage with both personal and universal themes, making it a significant addition to the landscape of contemporary poetry.
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Robert Bly’s new work creates a sort of poem full of humor that readers have never seen from him before. Often personal and autobiographical, the poems in this collection include meditations on the art of poetry (“Rereading Silence in the Snowy Fields”), on Bly’s boyhood on a Minnesota farm (“What the Animals Paid”), on myths and stories that shape our mutual world (“We’re All in This Story”), as well as a sequence of poems on Wallace Stevens and meditations on aging and facing death. Written in the discipline of a poem each day, the poems have some of the freshness of morning in them.
The Morning Poems is Bly at his best, an important reminder of why he is one of America’s most widely read and intensely admired poets.
Excerpt from “Loving God in the Kitchen Pans”:
A lamp pours light into the room, and it is your
Room, as you write poems there. You never
Tire of the curving lines, and the freedom of the sounds,
And the demons peering around the molding.
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