Robert Bly, The Morning Glory

William V. Davis (Baylor University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1975

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poem collection

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Robert Bly's

The Morning Glory

(1975) is a collection of forty-four prose poems. Fourteen of these are poems new to this edition, while the others were originally published in two earlier chapbooks,

The Morning Glory

(1970) and

Point Reyes Poems

(1974).

Morning Glory

therefore anticipates Bly's later collection of prose poems,

This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood

(1977), and his collected prose poems,

What Have I Ever Lost by Dying

(1992). (For a statement of Bly's theory and practice of the prose poem, see the entry on

This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood

The first poem in Morning Glory ends with the phrase “where we will be reborn, ecstatic and black.” This phrase defines the volume. Indeed, it might be argued that the poems in Morning Glory – like so many of

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Citation: Davis, William V.. "The Morning Glory". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 November 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=122, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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