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Robert Bly

Author of Iron John: A Book About Men

Includes the names: Robert Bly, Bly Robert, ed. Robert Bly, ed. Robert Bly, ed. Robert Bly, trans Robert Bly, editor Robert Bly, SELECTOR ROBERT BLY, Guest Ed. Robert Bly, Written By: Robert Bly ... (see complete list), guest editor Robert Bly, Prose Poems by Robert Bly with drawing by Gendron

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Works by Robert Bly

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Iron John: A Book About Men 1,139 copies, 8 reviews
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (Editor) 217 copies, 1 review
A Little Book on the Human Shadow 214 copies
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (Editor) 209 copies, 3 reviews
The Sibling Society 168 copies
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir (Adaptor) 160 copies
The Best American Poetry 1999 (Editor) 155 copies
News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness 131 copies, 1 review
Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems (Editor) 95 copies
Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy 91 copies, 2 reviews
The Light Around the Body 85 copies, 1 review
The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine 84 copies, 1 review
Selected Poems 80 copies
Morning Poems 75 copies, 3 reviews

Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations 64 copies

The Man in the Black Coat Turns 62 copies

Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems 57 copies

American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity 55 copies

Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Program) 53 copies

Loving a Woman in Two Worlds 52 copies

Sleepers Joining Hands 49 copies

Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems (Editor) 47 copies

The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations 45 copies, 1 review

Angels of Pompeii 43 copies

My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems 37 copies

What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems 37 copies

The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems 33 copies, 1 review

This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years 29 copies

Friends, You Drank Some Darkness (Editor) 27 copies, 1 review

The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau 25 copies, 1 review

This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood: Prose Poems 21 copies

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Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor, some editions) 558 copies, 1 review
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 313 copies, 3 reviews
The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics) (Contributor) 211 copies, 2 reviews
The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez (Translator, some editions) 22 copies, 1 review
Literary Outtakes (Contributor) 13 copies
The Best Spiritual Writing 2012 (Contributor) 9 copies
Alfabet op de rug gezien (Contributor) 5 copies
The Voices (Translator, some editions) 5 copies, 1 review
New World Writing #15 (Contributor) 2 copies
Twenty Poems of Cesar Vallejo (Translator) 1 copy
Moons and Lion Tailes, No. 4: A Midwestern Journal of Poetry and Comment (Contributor) 1 copy

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Bly, Robert

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Date of birth

1926-12-23

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Gender

male

Nationality

USA

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Birthplace

Madison, Minnesota, USA

Place of death

Places of residence

Madison, Minnesota, USA (birth)

Education

Harvard University (1950)

University of Iowa (Writers Workshop)

Occupations

poet

farmer

Relationships

Bly, Carol (wife | divorced)

James, Eloisa (daughter)

Organizations

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1987)

American Writers Against the Vietnam War (Co-founder)

Awards and honors

Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship in Poetry (1964-1965)

American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1965)

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