Robert Bly | The Sun Magazine #2

Robert Bly

Robert Bly is a poet and translator. His books include Iron John: A Book about Men and The Light around the Body.

— From August 2016
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

News Of The Universe

Poems Of Twofold Consciousness

This book asks one question over and over: how much consciousness is the poet willing to grant to trees or hills or living creatures not a part of his own species?

February 1981
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

An Evening With Robert Bly

Every poet, when he grows up in this country, has to face that issue. Is he going to go with the English or is he going to go against them? It takes a long time to fight that out. I, myself, was with the English three or four years after I got out of college. I was writing sonnets.

July 1978
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