"This dazzling, intensely personal compendium is a passionate feast." -Jane HirshfieldRobert Bly had always been amazingly prescient in his choice of poets to translate. The poetry he chose supplied qualities that were lacking from the literary culture of this country. For the first time Robert Bly's brilliant translations, from several languages and spanning twenty-two poets, have been brought together in one book. At a time when editors and readers knew only Eliot and Pound, Robert Bly introduced the earthy wildness of Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo and the sober grief of Trakl, as well as the elegance of Jiménez and Tranströmer. He also published high-spirited versions of Kabir and Rumi, and Mirabai, which had considerable influence on the wide culture of the 1970s and 1980s. Bly's clear translations of Rilke attracted many new readers to the poet, and his versions of Machado have become models of silence and depth. He continues to bring fresh and amazing poets into English, most recently Rolf Jacobsen, Miguel Hernandez, Francis Ponge, and the ninteenth-century Indian poet Ghalib. As Kenneth Rexroth has said, Robert Bly "is one of the leaders of a poetic revival which has returned American literature to the world community."

The Winged Energy of Delight - Selected Translations

Dr. Jekyll ist ein guter, mitfühlender und zivilisierter Mensch. Immer wieder aber ergreift die dunkle, triefhafte Persönlichkeit des Dr. Hyde von ihm Besitz. Robert Bly sieht in dieser anderen Persönlichkeit die Schattenseite des Menschen, den C. G. Jung den "Schatten" nennt. Unser ganzes Leben schleppen wir einen großen Sack hinter uns her, beladen mit den Teilen unseres Selbst, die weder unsere Eltern noch die Gesellschaft und schließlich auch wir selbst nicht annehmen wollen, beladen mit Aggression und unterdrückten Trieben. Er kommt zu dem Schluss, dass wir in diesen unbekannten und unterdrückten Teil der Psyche eintauchen müssen, um unser Leben zu ändern. Wir müssen die Hexe und den Riesen wieder zu einem Teil unseres Selbst machen.

Der Schatten - Die dunklen Seiten des menschlichen Wesens

"Morning Poems is a sensational collection - Robert Bly's best in many years. Inspired by the example of William Stafford, Bly decided to embark on the project of writing a daily poem: Every morning he would stay in bed until he had completed the day's work. These 'little adventures/In Morning longing, ' as he calls them, address classic poetic subjects (childhood, the seasons, death and heaven) in a way that capitalizes fully on the pun in the book's title. These are morning poems, full of the delight and mystery of waking in a new day, and they also do their share of mourning, elegizing the deceases and capturing the 'moment of sorror before creation.' Some of the poems are dialogues where unconventional speakers include mice, maple trees, bundles of grain, the body, the 'oldest mind' and the soul. A particularly moving sequence involves Bly's imaginative transactions with a great and unlikely precursor, Wallace Stevens. The whole is a fascinating and original book from one of our most fascinating authors." - David Lehman

Morning Poems

"Bly's imaginative prose poems radiate witty delight." - Library JournalA brilliant collection spanning half a century, from one of America's most powerful poets. Robert Bly had many roles in his illustrious career. He was 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. Throughout these activities, Bly continued to deepen his own poetry, a vigorous voice in a period of more academic wordsmiths. Here he has presented his favorite poems of the last decades-timeless classics from Silence in the Snowy Fields, The Man in the Black Coat Turns, and Loving a Woman in Two Worlds. A complete section of marvelous new poems rounds out this collection, which offers a chance to reread, in a fresh setting, a lifetime of work dedicated to fresh perspectives.

Eating the Honey of Words - New and Selected Poems

"The poems of The Night Abraham Called to the Stars mark the ripening of a new current in Bly's career: Now in his mid-70s, he is writing with tremendous energy and clarity and force, and producing some of the best work of his long career." - The NationA volume of poetry with an emphasis on spirituality from the National Book Award winner. Drawing on the profound influence that Islamic poetry, such as Rumi's, has had on his work, Robert Bly transmutes the remarkable ghazal form into a stunning series of poems. In this form, the poet can change the landscape in each stanza, ranging from a love poem to wisdom literature to a complaint about the poet's private life. A cultured form with many references to other poems and poets, ghazal poetry challenges and involves the reader. In this volume, Bly's poetry resonates with deep spirituality while sounding the major themes of modern life. Merging wildness and a beautiful formality, this collection assures the reputation of one of the major poets of our era.

The Night Abraham Called to the Stars - Poems

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Robert Bly, né le 23 décembre 1926 dans le comté de Lac qui Parle (Minnesota), et mort le 21 novembre 2021 à Minneapolis, est un écrivain, poète, traducteur, éditeur et militant du mouvement mythopoétique américain. Il fut le premier Poète lauréat du Minnesota.

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