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

Literature & Fiction

Robert Bly

Poetry

Harper Row Publishers

His most important collection of poems.

Sleepers joining hands

Harper&Row

American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity

Essays discuss issues in modern poetry, and look at the works of James Wright, David Ignatow, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Thomas McGrath, Robert Lowell, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, and Donald Hall

History & Criticism

This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years

Inspired by sources that range from Rilke and mysticism to the vicissitudes of daily life, Bly's sixth major collection of poems reflects a deep concern with nature and the landscape

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 booksThe Fifties, The Sixties, and The Seventies. He was a leader of the antiwar movement, founded the mens 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 ten years, as well as some favorites from his earlier books such as Silence in the Snowy Fields, The Man in the Black Coat Turns, and Loving a Woman in Two Worlds. Joining these timeless classics are marvelous new poems from the last two years. 
This book is a chance to reread, in a fresh setting, many of Blys most famous early poems, and in some instances to see how the old poems have changed over the years. In this new selection, which includes a number of poems from past decades never published before, one can see more clearly than ever the powerful undercurrents that carry this poetry from one book on to the next.
It is a brilliant collection that confirms Robert Bly's role as one of Americas preeminent poets writing today.

Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems

United States

Harper-perennial

Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow - the dark side of the human personality - and the importance of confronting it.

A Little Book on the Human Shadow

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

HarperOne

The Sibling Society - 1997 publication [paperback] Robert Bly [Jan 01, 1997]

The Sibling Society - 1997 publication

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Combines insightful poetry with photographs of the mysterious, decorative angels that remain on the decaying walls in Pompeii

Angels of Pompeii

Arts & Photography

Ballantine Books

Where have all the grownups gone? In answering that question with the same freewheeling erudition and intuitive brilliance that made Iron John a national bestseller, poet, storyteller and translator Robert Bly tells us that we live in a "sibling society, " in which adults have regressed into adolescence and adolescents refuse to grow up. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Sibling Society

Psychology & Counseling

Random House Audio |

Robert Bly writes that it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by popular culture are worn out, that a man can no longer depend on them. Iron John searches for a new vision of what a man is or could be, drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, folklore and legend. Robert Bly looks at the importance of the Wild Man (reminiscent of the Wild Woman in Women Who Run With the Wolves), who he compares to a Zen priest, a shaman or a woodman. 'This book needs to be read, I believe, not as a dry work of scholarship to be judged coolly by the mind, but as the work of a poet struggling to convey an emotional experience and lead us to what he has found within himself' Guardian. 'Eclectic and unclassifiable. Iron John is a work whose mentors are the prophetic poets and crazies, William Blake and Walt Whitman' Sydney Morning Herald. 'Important.timely.and powerful' New York Times

Iron John

Random House]

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