false 162338 3 <p> Readers have found Robert Bly's ghazals startling and new; they merge wildness with a beautiful formality. </p> <p> <i>My Sentence Was a Thousand Years</i> of Joy is Robert Bly's second book of ghazals. The poems have become more intricate and personal than they were in <i>The Night Abraham Called to the Stars</i>, and the leaps even bolder. This book includes the already famous poem against the Iraq War, "Call and Answer": "Tell me why it is we don't lift our voices these days / And cry over what is happening." </p> <p> The poems are intimate and yet reach out toward the world: the paintings of Robert Motherwell, the intensity of flamenco singers, the sadness of the gnostics, the delight of high spirits and wit. Robert Bly is writing the best poems of his life, and this book reestablishes his position as one of the greatest poets of our era. </p> 2852070 2005 My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems total:36|5:15|4:9|3:8|2:4| 36 143 50 7 3 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 15:34:50 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 06:54:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 09 10:44:33 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 11:12:49 -0700 2007 Growing Wings

It's all right if Cezanne goes on painting the same picture.
It's all right if juice tastes bitter in our mouths.
It's all right if the old man drags one useless foot.

The apple on the Tree of Paradise hangs there for months.
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A close friend of truth: but you have learned to drive
Your buggy over the prairies of human sorrow."
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