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).
Ryan G. Van Cleave Jack Hirschman Rene Char R. T. Smith Stella Vinitchi Radulescu Sally Buckner Eugenio Montale Marilyn Kallet Gearóid Mac Lochlainn Spanish Phebe Davidson Al Maginnes Ron Rash Luke Hankins Essay Jonathan Greene Gaylord Brewer Lee Ann Brown Janice Moore Fuller Hungarian Emöke Z. B’Racz Simon Perchik Dede Wilson Russian Marilyn Hacker Robert Bly Newton Smith Kathryn Stripling Byer Patrick Bizzaro Lyn Lifshin Jeffery Beam William Matthews Quincy Troupe Thomas P. Feeny Welsh Review Thomas Rain Crowe Keith Flynn J. W. Bonner Emmanuel Moses Bill Knott Michael Harper Jonathan Williams Patricia Smith Robert Creeley