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Robert Bly



Robert Bly (1926–2021) was an American poet, activist, and leader of the mythopoetic men’s movement. In addition to his vast collection of poetry and translations, he is well known for his anti-war protest efforts, his theories on the roots of social problems, and his efforts to help men reclaim and channel their masculinity in a positive manner.

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Robert Bly Lecture: The Art of Longing (1995)

Poet Robert Bly explores the worlds of longing: the longing to stay in the garden, to find the father, to be swallowed by a whale, to steal the good from those around you, to offer gratitude through ritual. Includes readings of Rumi, Hopkins and his own poetry, both classic and new.

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Robert Bly
2014
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Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems

Gathers poems by the Chilean and Peruvian poets, including both English translations and the original Spanish versions. Edited and a new preface by Robert Bly; translations by Robert Bly, John Knoepfle, and James Wright. English and Spanish.

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Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, Robert Bly (translator)
1993
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I Have Daughters and I Have Sons

A series of numbered musing quatrains on life.

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Robert Bly: News of the Universe

The first film to explore Robert Bly's life and art - as poet, translator, anti-war activist, guiding light of the men's work movement, and all round cultural gadfly.

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Robert Bly
2012
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Talking Into the Ear of a Donkey: Poems

In his richest and most varied collection of poems to date, Robert Bly mines lifelong fascination with poetic form. The poems in Talking into the Ear of a Donkey range from free verse to Bly’s uniquely American version of the famous ghazal form.

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Robert Bly
2012
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The Poetry of Rumi

Robert Bly and Coleman Barks perform the poetry of Rumi at one of the Mythic Journeys conferences.

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Robert Bly
2007
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American Poetry: 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.

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Robert Bly
1991
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Evening with Robert Bly, Marcus Wise & David Whetstone (2009)

An evening of poetry, commentary and laughter with Robert Bly and the world-class music of Marcus Wise and David Whetstone, from the 2009 Minnesota Men’s Conference.

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Robert Bly
2013
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Looking for Dragon Smoke: Essays on Poetry

This collection contains some of Bly’s seminal essays on poets and poetry including: Looking for Dragon Smoke, The Eight Stages of Translation, Six Disciplines that Intensify Poetry, and essays on Hirshfield, Stevens, Whitman, Wright, Rilke, Machado, Stafford and others.

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Robert Bly
2019
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Robert Bly & Martín Prechtel: The Story of Prince Lindworm (1993)

Robert Bly tells the Scandinavian story of "Prince Lindworm," (late in the Story played by Martín Prechtel) a parable of your relationship with the hostile twin coiled inside you-who was cast away during childhood, who waits years before roaring back into your life and begins swallowing those...

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Robert Bly
2014
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