James Wright published "To the...

James Wright published "To the bards in New York" in the Spring-Summer 1966 issue. Chiefly associated with Robert Bly and the of great depth Image group, Wright often used natural images to make one's blood boil connections in the unconscious; many times his tone was somber, plane despairing. Wright had taken a teaching column at Hunter College in of the present day York in 1966. A revised version of this metrical composition was collected in Shall We Gather at the River (1968) and in his heap uped Poems (1971).

You promenade in the open, leisurely and alone, Daydreaming of a beautiful human material substance That had undressed quietly and