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    Robert Bly

    American poet, author, and activist (1926–2021)
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    Robert Elwood Bly was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men, which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body. Wikipedia

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    American writer Robert Bly is regarded as "one of the legends of contemporary poetry," according to David Biespel, "the prototypical non-modernist the one who set in motion a poetics of intensity for generations to come." The author of dozens of books of poetry and translation, Bly's work is based in the natural world, the visionary ...
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    Dec 19, 2024Robert Bly was an American poet, translator, editor, and author, known for his book Iron John on masculinity and his collaborations with Tomas Tranströmer. He wrote poems in various forms and styles, drawing on nature, myth, and folklore, and won a National Book Award for The Light Around the Body.
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    Robert Bly was born in western Minnesota in 1926 to parents of Norwegian stock. He enlisted in the Navy in 1944 and spent two years there. After one year at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, he transferred to Harvard and thereby joined the famous group of writers who were undergraduates at that time, which included Donald Hall, Adrienne Rich ...
  5. Robert Bly is now 87 and living in Minnesota, lately distinguished as the most prominent translator in English of the 2011 Swedish Nobel Laureate Tomas Transtromer. But for a moment — say, 1991 ...
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