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Poetry by robert bly

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Reaching Out to the World: New & Selected Prose Poems

Available for the first time, this significant volume collects over one hundred of Robert Bly’s prose poems written over a period of five decades. It includes the bulk of several landmark out-of-print volumes as well as uncollected poems and new material.

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Courting Forgetfulness

A reminder of the weight, the temptation, and the mercy of forgetfulness.

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Robert Bly Reading: The Rise of the Sibling Society (1995)

Robert Bly offers a unique glimpse into the thinking behind his visionary 1996 book "The Sibling Society" as he was writing it, in a wide-ranging discussion of initiation, prolonged adolescence, the horizontal culture, and the father we all long for.

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The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations

Here, in The Winged Energy of Delight, the poems of twenty-two poets, some renowned, others lesser known, are brought together. A wonderful, well translated collection of spiritual poetry especially notable for the inclusion of non-Western poets not well known to Western readers.

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The Norwegian Grandson

A lyrical tableau of encapsulations of grief.

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Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations

Leaping Poetry is Robert Bly's testament to the singular importance of the artistic leap that bridges the gap between conscious and unconscious thought in any great work of art; the process that Bly refers to as “riding on dragons.

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Wanting Sumptuous Heavens

A musing on unique human discontentment amidst the natural world.

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Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems

Robert Bly has had many roles in his illustrious career. He is a chronicler and mentor of young poets, was a leader of the antiwar movement, founded the men's movement, and wrote the bestselling book Iron John, which brought the men's movement to the attention of the world.

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I Have Daughters and I Have Sons

A series of numbered musing quatrains on life.

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The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems

The Sea and the Honeycomb is a random collection of short poems of various topics from various authors, many of which are translations. The Sea and the Honeycomb is divided into various themes such as "Divinities of the Snow," "The Hill in the Mist," or "Love Poems.

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