00986cam a2200241 4500 2357479533 TxAuBib 20010213120000.0 760607s1962||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780819510150 0819510157 (OCoLC)280817 TxAuBib Bly, Robert. Silence in the snowy fields [BOOK] : poems / Robert Bly. [1st ed. Middletown, Conn : Wesleyan University Press, 1962. 60 p. ; 21 cm. In the early 1960s, Robert Bly's first poetry collection, Silence in the Snowy Fields, came as a fresh breeze to clear away the stale odor that hung over much American poetry. Influenced by Chinese and Spanish poetry, the Snowy Fields poems spoke a language of images rather than exhausted abstractions. 20010313. Poetry. American poetry 20th century.