Malak Mattar, Untitled (detail), 2024, charcoal on paper
“The train whistles...”
The train whistles the way I thought in the womb.
Robert Bly is the author of numerous books of poetry, nonfiction, and translation. A collection of his new and selected prose poems, Reaching Out to the World, was published in 2009 by White Pine Press. He is widely attributed with sparking the Mythopoetic Men’s Movement in America. (updated 6/2010)