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Robert Bly

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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Il piccolo libro dell'ombra. Per scoprire il nostro lato oscuro

Il piccolo libro dell'ombra. Per scoprire il nostro lato oscuro

2012

My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy

My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy

2005

Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtromer

Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtromer

2001

with Tomas Transtromer

The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems

The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems

1998

with Ghalib and Sunil Dutta

The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine

The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine

1998

with Marion Woodman

The Sibling Society: An Impassioned Call for the Rediscovery of Adulthood

The Sibling Society: An Impassioned Call for the Rediscovery of Adulthood

1996

Sacred Stories: A Celebration of the Power of Story to Transform and Heal

Sacred Stories: A Celebration of the Power of Story to Transform and Heal

1993

with Charles Simpkinson, Richard Katz, Matthew Fox and F. David Peat

A Little Book on the Human Shadow

A Little Book on the Human Shadow

1988

Iron John: A Book About Men

Iron John: A Book About Men

1984