Selected Poems of Bly
by Dong Jiping
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For more than half a century, Bly has lingered in the "image of depth", nurturing the "tree trunks and flowers that suddenly sprouted up deep in the lower plains of the Midwest." In the flash of light, various ideas such as walking in the forest, meditating at night, and retreating in the countryside are like invisible "pirate ships plowing through the dark flowers." "Selected Poems of Bly (European and American Poetry Collection)" compiled by Dong Jiping includes Bly's representative poems in his creative career, with a total of nearly 200 poems. Bly's "deep image" poetics is highly critical. He opposed the poetic principles of modernism based on materialism or objectivist Western philosophy. He believed that American modernist poetry inherited American commercial culture and Puritanism traditions, and they would be a legacy to the development of the national spirit. American poetry, since its earliest days, has turned in the wrong direction-towards the outside world. In other words, American poetry has lost its center and approach, and will have to linger on objective objects.
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