SOURCE: Kalaidjian, Walter. “From Silence to Subversion: Robert Bly's Political Surrealism.” In Critical Essays on Robert Bly, edited by William V. Davis, pp. 194-211. New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1992.
In the following essay, originally published in 1989, Kalaidjian probes Bly's subversive poetics—including his imagistic “repression of history” and his critique of American consumer culture and foreign policy—and concludes by assessing Bly's “woefully lacking” theory of matriarchy.
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