Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life

<div><p>The most recent in a line of great American transcendentalist writers.—<I>The New York Times</I></p><p>Bly's poems flow from . . . the great current of longing for reality true maturity the devotee's call to the Beloved.—<I>The Nation</I></p><p>Robert Bly changed the course of poetry in America by opening it up to the imagination and the deep-image aesthetic he is dedicated to reintegrating poetry with life—daily life the life of the body spiritual and political life.—<I>Huffington Post</I></p><p>The Chinese-influenced strain of Bly's work with its room for movement spontaneity and openness is celebrated in <I>Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life</I> and most amply showcased in its over one hundred and fifty poems. The poems collected from out-of-print books chapbooks and uncollected work spanning fifty years form a companion to his recent <I>Stealing Sugar From The Castle: New and Selected Poems</I>.</p><p><B>Like The New Moon I Will Live My Life</B></p><p><I>When your privacy is beginning over<BR>How beautiful the things are that you did not notice before!<BR>A few sweetclover plants<BR>Along the road to Bellingham<BR>Culvert ends poking out of driveways<BR>Wooden corncribs slowly falling<BR>What no one loves no one rushes towards or shouts about<BR>What lives like the new moon<BR>And the wind<BR>Blowing against the rumps of grazing cows.</I></p><p><I>Telephone wires stretched across water<BR>A drowning sailor standing at the foot of his mother's bed<BR>Grandfathers and grandsons sitting together.</I></p><p><B>Robert Bly</B> is one of the most influencial poets translators and editors of his generation.</p></div>