I’m sorry to hear this. I corresponded with Robert Bly intermittently from 1963 to about 1969 and subscribed to what was then The Sixties, continuing my subscription for a while into the next decade. During that period I was, first, an undergrad (reading Law) at the University of Liverpool, and then a post-grad. It was all a life-time ago! I still have several back-issues of The Fifties, as well as Twenty Poems of César Vallejo (1962), A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War (second printing: March 1967) and Twenty Poems of Pablo Neruda (1967). What attracted me to Bly was some of the same things that others, such as Andrew, have mentioned, particularly his notion of the “deep image” and his interest in translation. Other poets I came across through that contact were, of course, James Wright, but also John Haines and John Knoepfle. (I wonder who remembers him?) Though my attachments and taste in verse have moved elsewhere, like Sam I can still think of several poems, all of them early ones, that I still find rewarding. In his later career I took no interest at all.
Clive
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