<div><p>&quot;The most recent in a line of great American transcendentalist writers.&quot;<i>The New York Times</i></p><p>&quot;Bly's poems flow from . . . the great current of longing for reality, true maturity, the devotee's call to the Beloved.&quot;<i>The Nation</i></p><p>&quot;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 lifedaily life, the life of the body, spiritual and political life.&quot;<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>