Robert Bly

In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man.Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men and reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of remote fathers and mourns the disappearance of male initiation rites in our culture. Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," in which the narrator, or "Wild Man," guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of archetypes long forgotten-images of vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered.Simultaneously poetic and down-to-earth, combining the grandeur of myth with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories, Iron John is a rare work that will continue to guide and inspire men-and women-for years to come.

A Book About Men

Iron John

Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow -- the dark side of the human personality -- and the importance of confronting it.

A Little Book on the Human Shadow

Jane Hirshfield

M ir ab ai

A powerful collection of poems by the fifteenth-century female mystic traces the poetess's journey from her royal trappings to the countryside, where she became a saint and a martyr.

Ecstatic Poems

Mirabai

Kabir

English versions of poems by the fifteenth-century Indian whose spiritual growth was influenced by Sufi poets and the ideas of the Hindus

Forty-four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir

The Kabir Book

Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collection of more than 400 deeply moving poems from renowned artists including Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore, Thomas Wolfe, Czeslaw Milosz, and Henry David Thoreau.

Poetry Anthology, A

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart

"Morning Poems is a sensational collection — Robert Bly's best in many years. Inspired by the example of William Stafford, Bly decided to embark on the project of writing a daily poem: Every morning he would stay in bed until he had completed the day's work. These 'little adventures/In Morning longing,' as he calls them, address classic poetic subjects (childhood, the seasons, death and heaven) in a way that capitalizes fully on the pun in the book's title. These are morning poems, full of the delight and mystery of waking in a new day, and they also do their share of mourning, elegizing the deceases and capturing the 'moment of sorror before creation.' Some of the poems are dialogues where unconventional speakers include mice, maple trees, bundles of grain, the body, the 'oldest mind' and the soul. A particularly moving sequence involves Bly's imaginative transactions with a great and unlikely precursor, Wallace Stevens. The whole is a fascinating and original book from one of our most fascinating authors." — David Lehman

Morning Poems

Poems deal with such subjects as silence, sleep, moonlight, and snow

Poems

Silence in the Snowy Fields

ein Buch u ber Ma nner

Eisenhans

Acclaimed poet and translator Robert Bly here assembles a unique cross–cultural anthology that illuminates the idea of a larger–than–human consciousness operating in the universe. The book's 150 poems come from around the world and many eras: from the ecstatic Sufi poet Rumi to contemporary voices like Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov, Charles Simic, and Mary Oliver. Brilliant introductory essays trace our shifting attitudes toward the natural world, from the "old position" of dominating or denigrating nature, to the growing sympathy expressed by the Romantics and American poets like Whitman and Dickinson. Bly's translations of Neruda, Rilke, and others, along with superb examples of non–Western verse such as Eskimo and Zuni songs, complete this important, provocative anthology.

Poems of Twofold Consciousness

News of the Universe

Examines contemporary problems of American culture and challenges readers to accept the responsibilities of maturity

The Sibling Society

"Few forms of storytelling have greater power to captivate the human mind than fairy tales, but where do these tales originate from, and what do they mean? Celebrated poet and bestselling author Robert Bly has been asking these questions throughout his career. Here Bly looks at six tales that have stood the test of time and have captivated the poet for decades, from "The Six Swans" to "The Frog Prince." Drawing on his own creative genius, and the work of a range of thinkers from Kirkegaard and Yeats to Freud and Jung, Bly turns these stories over in his mind to bring new meaning and illumination to these timeless tales. Along with illustrations of each story, the book features some of Bly's unpublished poetry, which peppers his lyric prose and offers a look inside the mind of an American master of letters in the twilight of his singular career"--

the wisdom of fairy tales

More than true

Georg TRAKL

Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl. Translated by James Wright and Robert Bly. Ger. & Eng

Dr. Jekyll ist ein guter, mitfühlender und zivilisierter Mensch. Immer wieder aber ergreift die dunkle, triefhafte Persönlichkeit des Dr. Hyde von ihm Besitz. Robert Bly sieht in dieser anderen Persönlichkeit die Schattenseite des Menschen, den C.G.Jung den "Schatten" nennt. Unser ganzes Leben schleppen wir einen großen Sack hinter uns her, beladen mit den Teilen unseres Selbst, die weder unsere Eltern noch die Gesellschaft und schließlich auch wir selbst nicht annehmen wollen, beladen mit Aggression und unterdrückten Trieben. Er kommt zu dem Schluss, dass wir in diesen unbekannten und unterdrückten Teil der Psyche eintauchen müssen, um unser Leben zu ändern. Wir müssen die Hexe und den Riesen wieder zu einem Teil unseres Selbst machen.

Die dunklen Seiten des menschlichen Wesens

Der Schatten

"In this timeless and deeply learned classic, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it means to be a man. Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men, as well as on reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of remote fathers and mourns the disappearance of male initiation rites in our culture. Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John"--In which a mentor or "Wild Man" guides a young man through eight stages of male growth-to remind us of ways of knowing long forgotten, images of deep and vigorous masculinity centered in feeling and protective of the young. At once down-to-earth and elevated, combining the grandeur of myth with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories, Iron John is an astonishing work that will continue to guide and inspire men-and women-for years to come"--

A Book about Men

Illustrated by a series of snail drawings, Bly's prose poems merge elements of imagination, spirituality, and eroticism as they explore the mysteries and energies of the body

Prose Poems

This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood

Leonard Lewisohn

Thirty Poems of Hafez

The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door

Bly decided to embark on the project of writing a daily poem: every morning he would stay in bed until he had completed the day's work.

Morning poems

Tomas Transtromer

Selected Poems

Half-Finished Heaven

Poems of Twofold Consciousness (Sierra Club Books Publication)

This title is part anthology and part commentary wherein Bly seeks to rejuvenate modern Western poetry through his revelations of 'leaping' as found in the works of poets from around the world.

Robert Bly

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