Robert Bly is a poet, translator, essayist, editor, and the author of over twenty major volumes of poetic work, including The Light Around The Body, which won the National Book Award. He is also the founder of a literary magazine, which has been called, successively, The Fifties, The Sixties, The Seventies, and The Eighties. His translations from the Spanish (Neruda, Vallejo, Hernandez and Otero), from the Swedish (Martinson, Ekelof Transtromer), from the German (Rilke and Holderlin), and his versions of Kabir and the Sufi mystics almost singlehandedly brought an international awareness of poetry to this country in the last half century. His book, Iron John: A Book About Men is an international bestseller and has been translated into many languages. His most recent books are: Morning Poems (HarperCollins,1997), Eating The Honey Of Words: Selected Poems (Harper Flamingo, 1999), and a new translation of Ghalib called The Lightning Should Have Fallen On Ghalib (with Sunil Dutta, Ecco Press).
Simon Perchik Ron Rash Michael Harper Spanish Sally Buckner Ryan G. Van Cleave William Matthews Patricia Smith Emöke Z. B’Racz Newton Smith R. T. Smith Emmanuel Moses Jonathan Williams Gaylord Brewer Thomas Rain Crowe Marilyn Kallet Rene Char Robert Bly Gearóid Mac Lochlainn Russian Essay J. W. Bonner Thomas P. Feeny Dede Wilson Jonathan Greene Welsh Review Jack Hirschman Stella Vinitchi Radulescu Phebe Davidson Janice Moore Fuller Lyn Lifshin Hungarian Patrick Bizzaro Quincy Troupe Eugenio Montale Kathryn Stripling Byer Keith Flynn Luke Hankins Jeffery Beam Marilyn Hacker Nancy Naomi Carlson Robert Creeley Bill Knott Lee Ann Brown