This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years

Literature & Fiction

Bly,Robert

Poetry

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Morning Glory: Prose Poems

HarperCollins (paper)

Harper&Row

Sleepers Joining Hands

Illustrated by a series of snail drawings, Bly's prose poems merge elements of imagination, spirituality, and eroticism as they explore the mysteries and energies of the body

This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood: Prose Poems

Poems share the author's personal encounters with nature, including an abandoned anthill, an August rain, and frost-covered country field

What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?

Harpercollins

Robert Bly has had many roles in his illustrious career. He is a chronicler and mentor of young poets, many of whom he presented in his series of edited books -- The Fifties, The Sixties, and The Seventies. He was a leader of the antiwar movement, founded the men's movement virtually by himself, and published the bestseller Iron John. All through these activities, he has continued to deepen his own poetry, a vigorous voice in a period of more academic wordsmiths. Now, in Eating the Honey of Words, he presents the best poems he has written in the last three decades, including favorites from his earlier books such as Silence in the Snowy Fields, The Man in the Black Coat Turns, and Loving a Woman in Too Worlds. Joining these timeless classics are a number of poems from these past decades never published before, as well as a complete section of marvelous new poems from the last two years. 
This book is a chance to reread, in a fresh setting, many of Bly's most famous early poems, and in some instances to see how they have changed over the years. In this new selection, one can see more clearly than ever the powerful undercurrents that carry this poetry from one book to the next. 
Eating the Honey of Words is a brilliant collection that confirms Robert Bly's role as one of America's preeminent poets writing today.
The Face in the Toyota
Suppose you see a face in a Toyota One day, and you fall in love with that face, And it is Her, and the world rushes by Like dust blown down a Montana street.
And you fall upward into some deep hole, And you can't tell God from a grain of sand. And your life is changed, except that now you Overlook even more than you did before;
And these ignored things come to bury you, And you are crushed, and your parents Can't help anymore, and the woman in the Toyota Becomes a part of the world that you don't see.
And now the grain of sand becomes sand again, And you stand on some mountain road weeping.

Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems

Genre Fiction

Harper

Robert Bly's new work creates a sort of poem full of humor that readers have never seen from him before. Often personal and autobiographical, the poems in this collection include meditations on the art of poetry ("Rereading Silence in the Snowy Fields"), on Bly's boyhood on a Minnesota farm ("What the Animals Paid"), on myths and stories that shape our mutual world ("We're All in This Story"), as well as a sequence of poems on Wallace Stevens and meditations on aging and facing death. Written in the discipline of a poem each day, the poems have some of the freshness of morning in them. 
 The Morning Poems is Bly at his best, an important reminder of why he is one of America's most widely read and intensely admired poets. 
 Excerpt from "Loving God in the Kitchen Pans": 
 A lamp pours light into the room, and it is your 
 Room, as you write poems there. You never 
 Tire of the curving lines, and the freedom of the sounds, 
 And the demons peering around the molding.

Morning Poems

Meditations on the Insatiable Soul: Poems

A new collection of poetry encompasses autobiographical works, the relationships between fathers and sons, and unfulfilled longings

Robert Bly has 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, have been brought together in one book. Here, in The Winged Energy of Delight, the poems of twenty-two poets, some renowned, others lesser known, are brought together. 
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

United States

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This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years

The Morning Glory: Prose Poems

The Morning Glory: Prose Poems

Sleepers Joining Hands

This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood: Prose Poems

What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?

Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems

Morning Poems

Meditations on the Insatiable Soul: Poems

The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations