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Who have arranged these series of defeats for us? By: Robert Bly It's all right if this suffering goes on for years. It's all right if the hawk never finds his own nest. It's all right if we never receive the love we want. It's all right if we listen to the sitar for hours.…
Edited by Dana Levin and Adele Elise Williams, the Meyers project was, among other things, a labor of love, not only for Levin and Williams, each of whom in their own way regard the poet, who died in 1979, as their teacher and mentor, but also for Daniel Meyers, the poet’s son. Daniel’s efforts to ensure his father’s legacy culminated in the publication of In a Dybbuk’s Raincoat: Collected Poems (University of New Mexico Press, 2007)—a handsome, impeccable volume that did not impact the poetry world as it should have and is now, tragically, out-of-print.
Robert Bly, the great author and poet, used to teach that if a person loves a particular shade of red, he should wear that color. But Bly also taught that is incumbent on every adult to act in ways th...
To find their true masculine selves, wildmen dance and sweat, bond and meditate, renounce their mothers and grunt, “Ho!” I thought, “Hmmm.”
Before the indie-folk that made his name, Smith was in a gritty, abrasive (and largely forgotten) post-hardcore band. As unreleased recordings emerge, surviving members recall their brotherly bond