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Robert Bly
AuthorBooks · Second hand1926-2021
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 (1990), 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.
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About Robert Bly
Birth
1926
Death
2021
First book
1962
Years writing
56
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 (1990), 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.
Robert Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, a rural setting that deeply influenced his poetic sensibility.
Beyond his work as a poet, he was a prolific translator who brought diverse literatures to English-speaking readers.
His most famous work, Iron John, became a fundamental reference for understanding the vision of masculinity in the 20th century.
Throughout his life, Bly published an impressive 268 works, establishing himself as a key figure in American literature.
His legacy spans multiple fields, from editing and linguistics to the creation of introspective and profound poetry.
