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What Have I Ever Lost by Dying

by Robert Bly · 1992

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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Iron John comes the first complete collection of his moving and evocative prose poems. In each of these brief pieces, Bly brings natural life and human life together with his inimitable gift of language, gently reflecting on the human condition and modern life.

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short · 112 pages
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