With a Discussion About How Great Prose Poems Can Be Accessible to Anyone, Along With a Short Description of My Early Encounters with Robert Bly, and How We Became Unlikely Friends
When I read this line from Bly, why do I hear Frost’s “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”? The gaps in the wallboard, the gaps in the stone wall simultaneously promising both imprisonment and escape. Astonishing what brave writers can do unfettered, and how readers can learn to be brave.
When I read this line from Bly, why do I hear Frost’s “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”? The gaps in the wallboard, the gaps in the stone wall simultaneously promising both imprisonment and escape. Astonishing what brave writers can do unfettered, and how readers can learn to be brave.