Robert Bly's
Old Man Rubbing His Eyes(1975) is a collection of twenty “snowy fields” poems. First published in this chapbook, these poems were reprinted as the first section of Bly's
This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years, originally published in 1979, and extensively revised in 1992. See the entries on Bly's
Silence in the Snowy Fieldsand
This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Yearsfor more on these poems.
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Citation: Davis, William V.. "Old Man Rubbing His Eyes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 October 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3176, accessed 19 March 2024.]