Readers have found Robert Bly's ghazals startling and new; they
merge wildness with a beautiful formality.
"My Sentence Was a Thousand Years" of Joy is Robert Bly's second
book of ghazals. The poems have become more intricate and personal
than they were in "The Night Abraham Called to the Stars," and the
leaps even bolder. This book includes the already famous poem
against the Iraq War, "Call and Answer": "Tell me why it is we
don't lift our voices these days / And cry over what is
happening."
The poems are intimate and yet reach out toward the world: the
paintings of Robert Motherwell, the intensity of flamenco singers,
the sadness of the gnostics, the delight of high spirits and wit.
Robert Bly is writing the best poems of his life, and this book
reestablishes his position as one of the greatest poets of our
era.
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