The Light Around the Body

Name: The Light Around the Body
Author: Robert Bly

by Robert Bly

Political poems protesting Vietnam War and calling for inner transformation

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Robert Bly

American poet and translator who championed Spanish surrealism and deep image poetry. Silence in the Snowy Fields is his breakthrough collection, and his translations of Neruda, Lorca, and Transtromer were widely read.

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