This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years
A Poetry book. This guy, Bly, needs to go easy on the exclamation points. Jeesh. He's...
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- Pages: 64 pages
- ISBN: 9780060907136 / 60907134
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This guy, Bly, needs to go easy on the exclamation points. Jeesh. He's writing about snow-laden landscapes on the midwestern plains or some hushed reverie and then !!!BAM!!! an exclamation point goes off like a gunshot. Look at some of these: "Oval/Faces crowding to the window!"When I write of moral things,/The clouds boil/Blackly!"... Half-baked Zen, Midwestern style. These are the poems of a man who apparently thinks every dream he's had, or random doddering free association he's made, is worth publishing, and for whom no metaphor is too absurd. What's interesting about this volume is the implicit sense of the poet's inflated ego, as though he's convinced he's some... I enjoyed this book of Bly's poetry, but I find it more interesting as an historical artifact of a certain period of what poetry was in America than as an important book overall. The approach is minimalist, imagistic. The images themselves, farm land, nature, reflects a period of American culture that seems currently to have vanished...
