Reaching Out to the World: New & Selected Prose Poems (Marie Alexander Poetry Series)

“Joyous, inspired meditations that demonstrate Bly’s talent for conveying in the simplest language the richness and complexity of the universe around us.”—Library Journal

Available for the first time, this significant volume collects over one hundred of Robert Bly’s prose poems written over a period of five decades. It includes the bulk of several landmark out-of-print volumes as well as uncollected poems and new material. Bly has been one of the leading writers of the prose poem since the reemergence of the form in the 1960s.

Robert Bly is one of the leading poets of his generation.