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| - | '''Robert Bly''' (born [[December 23]], [[1926]] in [[Madison, Minnesota]]) is an American [[poet]], [[author]], [[activism|activist]] and leader of the [[Mythopoetic men's movement|Mythopoetic Men's Movement]] in the [[United States]]. | + | |
| + | '''Robert Elwood Bly''' (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist, and leader of the [[mythopoetic men's movement]]. His best-known prose book is ''[[Iron John: A Book About Men]]'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]], and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. He won the 1968 [[National Book Award for Poetry]] for his book ''The Light Around the Body''. | ||
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| ==Works== | ==Works== | ||
| ===Poetry collections=== | ===Poetry collections=== | ||
| - | *Talking into the Ear of a Donkey: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011) | + | *''Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013) |
| - | *Turkish Pears in August: Twenty-Four Ramages (Eastern Washington University, 2007) | + | *''Talking into the Ear of a Donkey: Poems'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011) |
| - | *The Urge to Travel Long Distances (Eastern Washington University Press, 2005) | + | *''Reaching Out to the World: New & Selected Prose Poems'' ([[White Pine Press]], 2009) |
| - | *My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (HarperCollins, 2005) | + | *''Turkish Pears in August: Twenty-Four Ramages'' (Eastern Washington University, 2007) |
| - | *Surprised by Evening (RealNewMusic, 2005) | + | *''The Urge to Travel Long Distances'' (Eastern Washington University Press, 2005) |
| - | *The Night Abraham Called to the Stars (HarperCollins, 2001) | + | *''My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy'' (HarperCollins, 2005) |
| - | *Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems (1999) | + | *''Surprised by Evening'' (RealNewMusic, 2005) |
| - | *Snowbanks North of the House (1999) | + | *''The Night Abraham Called to the Stars'' (HarperCollins, 2001) |
| - | *Morning Poems (1997) | + | *''Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems'' (1999) |
| - | *Meditations on the Insatiable Soul (1994) | + | *''Snowbanks North of the House'' (1999) |
| - | *What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems (1992) | + | *''Morning Poems'' (1997) |
| - | *Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (1985) | + | *''Meditations on the Insatiable Soul'' (1994) |
| - | *Selected Poems (1986) | + | *''What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems'' (1992) |
| - | *Mirabai Versions (1984) | + | *''Loving a Woman in Two Worlds'' (1985) |
| - | *The Man in the Black Coat Turns (1981) | + | *''Selected Poems'' (1986) |
| - | *This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years (1979) | + | *''Mirabai Versions'' (1984) |
| - | *This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood (1977) | + | *''The Man in the Black Coat Turns'' (1981) |
| - | *Old Man Rubbing His Eyes (1974) | + | *''This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years'' (1979) |
| - | *Jumping Out of Bed (1973) | + | *''This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood'' (1977) |
| - | *Sleepers Joining Hands (1973) | + | *''Old Man Rubbing His Eyes'' (1974) |
| - | *The Light Around the Body (1967)- won [[National Book Award]] | + | *''Jumping Out of Bed'' (1973) |
| - | *The Lion's Tail and Eyes (1962) | + | *''Sleepers Joining Hands'' (1973) |
| - | *Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962) | + | *''The Light Around the Body'' (1967) — [[National Book Award]]<ref name=nba1968/> |
| + | *''The Lion's Tail and Eyes'' (1962) | ||
| + | *''Silence in the Snowy Fields'' (1962) | ||
| - | ===Translations collections=== | + | ===Translations=== |
| - | *''The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge'' ([[Copper Canyon Press]], 2008) (with Robert Hedin) | + | |
| - | *''Peer Gynt'' (verse play) - by Henrik Ibsen (2008) | + | *''The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez'' ([[HarperCollins]], 2008), with Leonard Lewisohn |
| - | *''The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations,'' [[HarperCollins]] (2004) | + | *''The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge'' ([[Copper Canyon Press]], 2008), with Robert Hedin |
| - | *''The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer,'' [[Graywolf Press]] (2001) | + | *''Peer Gynt'' (2008) — verse play by [[Henrik Ibsen]] |
| - | *''The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib'' (with Sunil Dutta, 1999) | + | *''Kabir: Ecstatic Poems'' ([[Beacon Press]], 2004) |
| - | *''Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems,'' [[Beacon Press]] (1997) | + | *''Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems'', translators Bly and Jane Hirshfield (Beacon Press, 2004) |
| + | *''The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations'' (HarperCollins, 2004) | ||
| + | *''The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer'' ([[Graywolf Press]], 2001) | ||
| + | *''The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib'', with Sunil Dutta (1999) | ||
| + | *''Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems'' (Beacon Press, 1997) | ||
| *''Ten Poems of Francis Ponge Translated by Robert Bly & Ten Poems of Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge'' (1990) | *''Ten Poems of Francis Ponge Translated by Robert Bly & Ten Poems of Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge'' (1990) | ||
| *''Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge'' (1987) | *''Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge'' (1987) | ||
| *''Machado's Times Alone: Selected Poems'' (1983) | *''Machado's Times Alone: Selected Poems'' (1983) | ||
| + | *''Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke: A Translation from the German and Commentary by Robert Bly'' (1981) | ||
| *''The Kabir Book'' (1977) | *''The Kabir Book'' (1977) | ||
| *''Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets: Martinson, Ekeloef, and Transtromer'' (1975) | *''Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets: Martinson, Ekeloef, and Transtromer'' (1975) | ||
| *''Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems'' (1971) | *''Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems'' (1971) | ||
| - | *''[[Hunger (novel)]] — by Knut Hamsun'' (1967) | + | *''[[Hunger (Hamsun novel)|Hunger]]'' (1967) — novel by Knut Hamsun |
| ===Anthologies (as editor)=== | ===Anthologies (as editor)=== | ||
| *''The Best American Poetry'' (1999) | *''The Best American Poetry'' (1999) | ||
| - | *''The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures,'' [[Ecco Press]] (1995) | + | *''The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures'', [[Ecco Press]] (1995) |
| *''The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford'' (1993) | *''The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford'' (1993) | ||
| - | *''The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men'' (1992) | + | *''The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men'' Co-edited with James Hillman and Michael Meade (1992) |
| *''News of the Universe'' (1980) | *''News of the Universe'' (1980) | ||
| *''Leaping Poetry'' (1975) | *''Leaping Poetry'' (1975) | ||
| *''A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War'' (1967) | *''A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War'' (1967) | ||
| + | *''The Sea and the Honeycomb'' (1966) | ||
| ===Nonfiction books=== | ===Nonfiction books=== | ||
| + | *''More Than True: The Wisdom of Fairy Tales'' (Henry Holt & Co, 2018) | ||
| *''Remembering James Wright'' (2005) | *''Remembering James Wright'' (2005) | ||
| - | *''The Maiden King : The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine'' (with Marion Woodman), [[Henry Holt and Company|Henry Holt & Co]] (1998) | + | *''The Maiden King : The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine'', Bly and Marion Woodman ([[Henry Holt & Co]], 1998) |
| - | *''The Sibling Society,'' [[Addison-Wesley]] (1996) | + | *''[[The Sibling Society]]'' ([[Addison-Wesley]], 1996) |
| *''The Spirit Boy and the Insatiable Soul'' (1994) | *''The Spirit Boy and the Insatiable Soul'' (1994) | ||
| *''American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity'' (1991) | *''American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity'' (1991) | ||
| *''[[Iron John: A Book About Men]]'' (1990) | *''[[Iron John: A Book About Men]]'' (1990) | ||
| - | *''A Little Book on the Human Shadow,'' (with William Booth, 1988) | + | *''A Little Book on the Human Shadow'', Bly and William Booth (1988) |
| *''Eight Stages of Translation'' (1983) | *''Eight Stages of Translation'' (1983) | ||
| - | *''Talking All Morning: Collected Conversations and Interviews'' (1980) | + | *''Talking All Morning:'' |
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| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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| *[[Religion and mythology]] | *[[Religion and mythology]] | ||
| - | *[[Carl Jung]] | ||
| *[[Joseph Campbell]] | *[[Joseph Campbell]] | ||
| *[[Mythopoetic men's movement|Mythopoetic Men's Movement]] | *[[Mythopoetic men's movement|Mythopoetic Men's Movement]] | ||
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Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist, and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.
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Works
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Poetry collections
- Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013 (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)
- Talking into the Ear of a Donkey: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011)
- Reaching Out to the World: New & Selected Prose Poems (White Pine Press, 2009)
- Turkish Pears in August: Twenty-Four Ramages (Eastern Washington University, 2007)
- The Urge to Travel Long Distances (Eastern Washington University Press, 2005)
- My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (HarperCollins, 2005)
- Surprised by Evening (RealNewMusic, 2005)
- The Night Abraham Called to the Stars (HarperCollins, 2001)
- Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems (1999)
- Snowbanks North of the House (1999)
- Morning Poems (1997)
- Meditations on the Insatiable Soul (1994)
- What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems (1992)
- Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (1985)
- Selected Poems (1986)
- Mirabai Versions (1984)
- The Man in the Black Coat Turns (1981)
- This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years (1979)
- This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood (1977)
- Old Man Rubbing His Eyes (1974)
- Jumping Out of Bed (1973)
- Sleepers Joining Hands (1973)
- The Light Around the Body (1967) — National Book Award<ref name=nba1968/>
- The Lion's Tail and Eyes (1962)
- Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962)
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Translations
- The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez (HarperCollins, 2008), with Leonard Lewisohn
- The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), with Robert Hedin
- Peer Gynt (2008) — verse play by Henrik Ibsen
- Kabir: Ecstatic Poems (Beacon Press, 2004)
- Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems, translators Bly and Jane Hirshfield (Beacon Press, 2004)
- The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations (HarperCollins, 2004)
- The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer (Graywolf Press, 2001)
- The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib, with Sunil Dutta (1999)
- Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems (Beacon Press, 1997)
- Ten Poems of Francis Ponge Translated by Robert Bly & Ten Poems of Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge (1990)
- Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge (1987)
- Machado's Times Alone: Selected Poems (1983)
- Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke: A Translation from the German and Commentary by Robert Bly (1981)
- The Kabir Book (1977)
- Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets: Martinson, Ekeloef, and Transtromer (1975)
- Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems (1971)
- Hunger (1967) — novel by Knut Hamsun
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Anthologies (as editor)
- The Best American Poetry (1999)
- The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures, Ecco Press (1995)
- The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford (1993)
- The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men Co-edited with James Hillman and Michael Meade (1992)
- News of the Universe (1980)
- Leaping Poetry (1975)
- A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War (1967)
- The Sea and the Honeycomb (1966)
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Nonfiction books
- More Than True: The Wisdom of Fairy Tales (Henry Holt & Co, 2018)
- Remembering James Wright (2005)
- The Maiden King : The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine, Bly and Marion Woodman (Henry Holt & Co, 1998)
- The Sibling Society (Addison-Wesley, 1996)
- The Spirit Boy and the Insatiable Soul (1994)
- American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity (1991)
- Iron John: A Book About Men (1990)
- A Little Book on the Human Shadow, Bly and William Booth (1988)
- Eight Stages of Translation (1983)
- Talking All Morning:
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See also
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