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