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Davis, William V. A substantial introduction to Robert Bly from the Literary Encyclopedia, 08 January 2001. On Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962); The Light Around the Body (1967); Sleepers Joining Hands (1973); The Morning Glory (1975); This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood (1977); This Tree Will Be Here For A Thousand Years (1979); The Man in the Black Coat Turns (1981); Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (1983)
Moramarco, Fred. A lengthy critical article by Professo Moramarco from his book, Containing Multitudes, has a section on Robert Bly along with other seminal poets of the period who "would move beyond the impersonal, objectivist confines of modernism and toward a poetry centered in the physical self of the poet who produced it. They participated collectively in the mid-century poetic climate that revolutionized poetry and greatly broadened its possibilities."
Triggs, Jeffery Alan. "Hurt into Poetry: The Political Verses of Seamus Heaney and Robert Bly," The New Orleans Review 19.3-4 (Fall & Winter 1992): 162-73
An introduction to Robert Bly, plus excerpts of literary criticism of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
An extended, introductory article on Robert Bly's career, includes list of his works and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation
In a PBS interview, Robert Bly talks about male violence and his book Iron John
In an interview in Poetry Daily, Robert Bly discusses the prose poem
An introduction to Robert Bly from the Academy of American Poets
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