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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

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)

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

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)

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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