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Part I. Essays -- Thinking About Robert Bly / William Matthews -- Inward To The World: The Poetry Of Robert Bly / William Heyen -- Robert Bly: Like Those Before, We Move To The Death We Love / Richard Howard -- Robert Bly Alive In Darkness / Anthony Libby -- Robert Bly: Watering The Rocks / James F. Mersmann -- Robert Bly / Ekbert Faas -- Varieties Of Immanentist Experience: Robert Bly / Charles Altieri -- Rejoice In The Gathering Dark: The Poetry Of Robert Bly / Charles Molesworth -- Of Energy Compacted And Whirling: Robert Bly's Recent Prose Poems / Ralph J. Mills, Jr. -- Walking Where The Plows Have Been Turning: Robert Bly And Female Consciousness / Victoria Harris -- Back To The Snowy Fields / Wayne Dodd -- Sentences As Measures In Two Of Robert Bly's Prose Poems / Donald Wesling -- Still The Place Where Creation Does Some Work On Itself: Robert Bly's Most Recent Work / William V. Davis -- Part Ii. Reviews, Conversations, Memoirs, Poems -- From The Introduction To Contemporary American Poetry / Donald Hall -- From The Wesleyan Poets -- Iii: The Experimental Poets / Norman Friedman -- From Spinning The Crystal Ball / James Dickey -- From Jeremiads At Half-mast / Robert Mazzocco -- From North Of Jamaica / Louis Simpson -- Notes On Robert Bly And Sleepers Joining Hands / Donald Hall -- Instruction From Bly / Cynthia Macdonald -- From James Wright: The Art Of Poetry Xix / Peter Stitt -- Two Poets Translating / Robert Bly And Tomas Tranströmer -- From Three Poets / Hugh Kenner -- From Music To Your Ears / Alan Williamson -- From Dark Volumes / Peter Stitt -- News From Robert Bly's Universe: The Man In The Black Coat Turns / Robert Peters -- An Interview With Robert Bly / Joseph Shakarchi. Edited By Joyce Peseroff. Bibliography: P. 335-345.