Robert Bly, Old Man Rubbing His Eyes

William V. Davis (Baylor University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1975

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poem collection

Resources

Robert Bly's Old Man Rubbing His Eyes (1975) is a collection of twenty “snowy fields” poems. First published in this chapbook, these poems were reprinted as the first section of Bly's This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years, originally published in 1979, and extensively revised in 1992. See the entries on Bly's Silence in the Snowy Fields and This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years for more on these poems.

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Citation: Davis, William V.. "Old Man Rubbing His Eyes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 October 2001 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3176, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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