Overview
Robert Bly views this revised edition of a book he first published in 1979 as a sequel to his first volume of poetry, Silence in the Snowy Fields. Bly writes, "Like those earlier poems, these poems agree to a landscape, to brief sentences, to an unruffled voice." These poems of double consciousness, the poet's own and nature's, and of the rare, precious merger of the two form an important stage in the opening and renewing of spirit that has made Bly's career so seminal.