The Garden Entrusted to Me: Essays on Poetry & the Writing Life

Author:   Robert Bly ,  Thomas R. Smith ,  Jane Hirshfield
Publisher:   White Pine Press
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9781945680854


Pages:   250
Publication Date:   23 April 2026
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The Garden Entrusted to Me: Essays on Poetry & the Writing Life


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Author:   Robert Bly ,  Thomas R. Smith ,  Jane Hirshfield
Publisher:   White Pine Press
Imprint:   White Pine Press
ISBN:  

9781945680854


ISBN 10:   1945680857
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   23 April 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Playfulness of His Labor: Robert Bly’s Life in Poetry I. The Life of Poetry Being a Lutheran Boy-God in Minnesota Tigers and Horses When Literary Life Was Still Piled Up in a Few Places “Snowbanks North of the House” II. Vocation and Disciplines The Vocation of Poetry Six Disciplines That Intensity Poetry What the Image Can Do III. The Labor of Its Playfulness Educating the Rider and the Horse A Playful Look at Form Form and Society in the Poem Praising the Seven Holy Vowels The Long Vowels A Week of Ghazals Writing a Poem While Listening to Music IV. No One Writes Alone The Paris Review Interview Afterword Remembering Robert Bly by Jane Hirshfield

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""Robert Bly has become, over his several lifetimes of ink and words, a force of geological genius, transforming the landscape of poetry and culture in ways that set him beside the Old Masters and anonymous teachers whose praises his lines so often sing. This book carries its own lantern of bioluminescence, an alchemical music and knowledge, and Bly's ferocious thirst, needed now more than ever.""—Jane Hirshfield


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Robert Bly (1926 - 2021) had a profound impact on the shape of American poetry. He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and essays. As the editor of the magazine The Sixties (begun as The Fifties), Bly introduced many unknown European and South American poets to an American audience. His honors include Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as The Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. His recent books include Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life, Looking for Dragon Smoke and Collected Poems. Thomas R. Smith is an internationally published poet, essayist, editor, and teacher living in western Wisconsin. He worked as Robert Bly's personal assistant from 1990 until the time of Bly's death in 2022, editing three earlier books on Bly's work,Walking Swiftly,Robert Bly in This World(with James P. Lenfestey), andAirmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtrmer.

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