About the poet: Robert Bly
Robert Bly (1926–2021) was born in Madison, Minnesota, and became one of the most influential American poets, translators, and cultural critics of the second half of the twentieth century. He founded the literary magazine The Fifties (later The Sixties, The Seventies), which introduced deep image poetry and significant translations to American readers. His collection The Light Around the Body (Harper and Row, 1967) won the National Book Award. He was a prominent anti-Vietnam War activist. His later cultural work includes Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), a bestselling investigation of masculine mythology. His translations of Neruda, Rilke, Lorca, and Kabir were enormously influential in shaping American poetry's relationship to world literature.
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