Welcome to the Robert Bly Web Site
Robert Bly, American Poet, 1926-2021 At this web site, readers will find information on every facet of Robert Bly's literary career, including bibliographies, reviews, and interviews, as well as new essays, …
A Short Biography of Robert Bly
A Short Biography of Robert Bly 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 …
Books of Poetry by Robert Bly
Reflecting Robert Bly's lifelong fascination with poetic form, the poems in Talking into the Ear of a Donkey range from free verse to Bly's invented form, the ramage, to his American version of the …
The Bookshelf: Titles by Robert Bly
In this section, you will find poetry and prose publications by Robert Bly, as well as a few books about Robert Bly. Choose a link below: Poetry Translations Prose Essays and Interviews Anthologies and …
Books About Robert Bly
ROBERT BLY IN THIS WORLD (edited by Thomas R. Smith with James P. Lenfestey) In Robert Bly's eighty-third year, to celebrate acquisition of his archives, the University of Minnesota sponsored a …
Prose Essays and Interviews by Robert Bly
Prose Essays and Interviews Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer The original version of Airmail was a bestseller in Sweden in 2001, after which Robert Bly commissioned Thomas …
An Interview with Robert Bly, Part 8
An Interview with Robert Bly Part 8. Men's Work Interviewer: Your life has been so entirely occupied with writing poetry, editing and translation of poems, how did your work with men come about? Robert Bly: …
Robert Bly's Bookshelf: Anthologies and Edited Books
This posthumous selected poems is the first ever drawn from James Wright's work. Edited by Robert Bly and Anne Wright, Selected Poems amply demonstrates Wright's enduring brilliance and importance as …
Review of Selected Poems of Ghalib
The ghazal form seems natural for the kind of associative "leaping poetry" and epigrammatic tendency for which Bly has always been noted. Only a few of his poems obey the end-word requirement—a …
Translations by Robert Bly
This collection, including translations by Robert Bly, Roger Greenwald and Robert Hedin, is the first in English to survey the whole range of this modern Norwegian poet’s work. Bly says in his introduction, …