Robert Bly

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The author of Iron John expands his mythic perspective to examine American culture at large--and finds us to be a nation of squabbling children. Bly looks beyond the individual psyche to the problems of our public life, explaining why our culture is so adrift, and challenges us to move beyond our own asolescent envy and fantasy and take responsiblity for our real children, to stop abandoning them "the devouring giants" of television, consumerism, and spiritual impoverishment.

The Sibling Society

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Writing on the title page, some underlining & notes in margins

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Nebraska

Poems of Twofold Consciousness

Collection of poems, selected, annotated, and translated by the American poet.

News of the Universe

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Represents a collection of the poet's best work, selected from his eight previous collections, and includes a commentary on the development of his oeuvre

Selected Poems

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Rated a very impressive 4.5 out of 5 on Goodreads!!
The astonishing collection of the translations Robert Bly has been producing for more than 50 years, introducing foreign poets, to American readers for the first time. ￼Poems from Europe, Asia and the Americas.

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Selected Translations

The astonishing collection of the translations Robert Bly has been producing for more than fifty years, introducing foreign poets to American readers for the first time. Robert Bly has always been amazingly prescient in his choice of poets to translate. The poetry he selected supplied qualities that seemed lacking from the literary culture of this country. At a time when editors and readers knew only Eliot and Pound, Bly introduced Neruda, Vallejo, Trakl, Jiménez, Traströmer, and Rumi. His most recent translations include Rolf Jacobsen, Francis Ponge, and the nineteenth-century Indian poet Ghalib. Here, in The Winged Energy of Delight, the poems of twenty-two renowned and lesser-known poets from around the world are brought together. As Kenneth Rexroth has said, Robert Bly "is one of the leaders of a poetic revival that has returned American literature to the world community."

The Winged Energy of Delight

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Florida

A Book about Men

n "a fascinating examination of myth, literature, psychology, and anthropology" (Newsday), National Book Award-winning poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man. "Important and timely."--New York Times Book Review.

Iron John

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A Book of Poems Against the Iraq War

This poetry collection discusses the Iraq war and some of the ominous implications of that serious step taken by the Republican administration. The collection includes six poems from the author's book on the Vietnam War, as well as a new group of poems discussing the power of the greedy soul or 'the rapacious soul.' Another five poems are in the ghazal form, including 'Call and answer, ' one of the first poems written against the Iraq War.

The Insanity of Empire

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South Carolina

Sacred Poems from Many Cultures

Robert Bly's ground-breaking anthology of spiritual poems, the result of over a decade of personal research, celebrates the ongoing role of the divine in literature. For as long as people have lived together in communities and built enduring cultures, they have sung and written about their relationship with the God or gods they believed in. In the words of the Irish writer Sean O'Faolain, "all good writing in the end is the writer's argument with God." The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy gathers poems from a wide range of cultures and traditions and divides them into ten parts, each forming a resonant exploration of a specific and timeless spiritual question. Selections include the work of Dante, Dogen, Goethe, Hafez, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Kabir, Lalla, Li Po, Mirabai, Mary Oliver, Owl Woman, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Rumi, in addition to Blake, Dickinson, Donne, Hopkins, Stevens, Yeats, and other important English and American poets. Together these poems form both a celebration and a quest--a kind of pilgrim's progress that embraces all the rich wisdom of East and West, ancient and modern, male and female, spirit and flesh.

Soul Is Here for It's Own Joy

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Poems from various eras and cultures illustrate people's perception of nature and consciousness and how that perception changed.

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Pennsylvania

Wildness and Domesticity

Essays discuss issues in modern poetry, and look at the works of James Wright, David Ignatow, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Thomas McGrath, Robert Lowell, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, and Donald Hall

American Poetry

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Idaho

"Chilean Pablo Neruda is Latin America's greatest poet and one of the finest ever to have written in the Spanish language. The Peruvian poet, Cesar Vallejo, part Indian and born in a mining village, ranks not far below Neruda. Robert Bly is one of America's foremost poets, and a translator of uncommon brilliance. The combination makes for a priceless volume."—Long Beach Press Telegram

Neruda and Vallejo {1993}

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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

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Explores the myths and cultural underpinnings of modern masculinity, revealing the nature of the male psyche and challenging men to reconnect with their lost emotional heritage

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With a Selection of Poems and Translations

The Eight Stages of Translation

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A unique gathering of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, with the original Spanish versions and powerful English translations on facing pages. In a new preface, editor and translator Robert Bly explores what the poems reveal today about politics, the spirit, and the purpose of art.

Lorca and Jimenez

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Sleeve is a little ripped and a corner is cut. First page has some tearing on the spine.
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Louisiana

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Kabir

Texas

Fourty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir

"Few major achievements of world literature are as little known to Americans as the great ecstatic poetry of the Hindus and Sufis, as exemplified by the work of the 15th century master, Kabir. Irreverent while being intensely religious, Kabir seems incredibly playful in his taunting of the sacred dogmas of his time--to readers accustomed to the solemnity and ideological fidelity of most Western religious poems. Kabir has been translated into English only once before, by Rabindranath Tagore and Evelyn Underhill. Unfortunately, Tagore's Victorian English was simply not equal to Kabir's directness, spontaneity, and irreverent humor. Working from the Tagore-Underhill translation, Bly has done much more than retranslate into American diction. A noted poet himself, he has breathed new life into the work of a fascinating poet"--From back cover.

The Kabir Book

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Rainer Maria Rilke

New Mexico

A translation from the German and commentary by Robert Bly

For poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, Robert Bly, the National Book Award-winning poet, brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the major German poets of the century.

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