Silence in the Snowy Fields

"Mr. Bly's poems name delicate, humble things, and at the same time describe man assuming his existence, beginning over again the test of illusions. At the end of each poem there is silence, without complaint."—Wallace Fowlie, New York Times Book Review

"Bly has pared his images (most of them stemming from a life close to natural phenomena) down to the bone and used them with charm and ingenuousness."—Beloit Poetry Journal

"This is poetry which springs out of an uncommon vision of natureThe poems are frequently epiphanies of man-in-nature without any fuss."—Thomas McGrath, National Guardian

"Mr. Bly's poems name delicate, humble things, and at the same time describe man assuming his existence, beginning over again the test of illusions. At the end of each poem there is silence, without complaint."—Wallace Fowlie, New York Times Book Review

"Bly writes of silence, sleep, moonlight and snow in Minnesota . . . It is lively and beautiful. For what interests Bly in silence is the articulate quality of it, its creative noise"—John Logan, The Critic