Title:: My Sentence Was A Thousand Years of Joy Authors:: [[Robert Bly]] Tags:: #poetry Read:: [[2022-04-29]] ## Editions - Edition:: Harper Perennial 2006 - Original Copyright:: 2005 - Pages:: 97 ## Annotations “There is so much joy in being afraid of the world together.” ~~~~ “I am a laggard, a loafer, and an idiot. But I love to read about those who caught one glimpse of the Face, and died twenty years later in joy. I don’t mind your saying I will die soon. Even in the sound of the word soon, I hear the word you which begins every sentence of joy.” ~~~~ Many of the poems in this collection didn’t land any touches, but those that did hit hard.