Word: beene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBERT BLY was in Cambridge one Saturday last spring. He wasn't giving a reading, no poetry conferences had been proposed; he was simply visiting friends. He spent the afternoon in the Grolier Bookshop and the Bick, and the evening in an apartment on Beacon Hill, reading from a long...
The present moment appears to be one in which language has been surrendered as a possibility; we are silent at films, in music, among ourselves. We are living in silence. So it's no longer surprising that poetry, like our voices, has turned inward, listening to its own hermetic cadences...
After nearly three years in New York, living alone ("I didn't even have enough money to take out a girl"), he moved back to his family's farm in Minnesota, and has been in the neighborhood of it ever since. His first book, Silence in the Snowy Fields, collected...
Like Robert Lowell, Bly sensed that what America had come to was inevitable, because of what it had been, a "torpid land" where "The stones bow as the saddened armies pass."
But their affinities ended with this recognition, because Lowell has been on the cover of Time. and Bly has become the most radical, angry, and influential poet of his generation (which is not Lowell's). Ten years ago. the best poets in America were still insisting on their own exclusivity...