The illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas TranstromerOne day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the la[...]
A paperback reissue from the bestselling author of "Iron John." A "penetrating and brilliant little volume that sheds new light on the Shadow. . . . A fresh and intense language and logos for describing the unrevealed."--Joan Halifax, former president, The Ojai Foundation[...]
In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man.Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men and reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of remote fathers and mourns the disappearance of male [...]
In his richest and most varied collection of poems to date, Robert Bly mines lifelong fascination with poetic form. The poems in Talking into the Ear of a Donkey range from free verse to Bly s uniquely American version of the famous ghazal form. In the title poem, Bly addresses the donkey possibly p[...]
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 adolesc[...]
It is clear to men, Robert Bly writes, that the images of adult manhood given by popular culture are worn out. Drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, folklore and legend, "Iron John" searches for a new vision of what a man is or could be.[...]
Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir's immense i[...]
Wesleyan University Press is pleased to present a special miniature edition of this best-selling volume of poetry by Robert Bly. Originally published in 1962, Silence in the Snowy Fields was Bly's first book, and one of the first volumes of poetry published by Wesleyan. Silence in the Snowy Fields d[...]
Available for the first time, this significant volume collects over one hundred of Robert Bly's prose poems written over a period of five decades. It includes the bulk of several landmark out-of-print volumes as well as uncollected poems and new material. Bly has been one of the leading writers of t[...]
Air Mail inneholder brevvekslingen mellom den nobelprisvinnende poeten Tomas Tranströmer og hans amerikanske venn og kollega Robert Bly. Gjennom en 26-årsperiode utveksler de synspunkter på storpolitikk, historie, psykologi - og selvsagt kunst og litteratur. Minst tre dager tar brevets ferd fra e[...]
Tomas Tranströmer och Robert Bly har varit vänner länge och det har varit en djup och varm vänskap. De lärde känna varandra på sextiotalet, och den första delen av brevväxlingen utspelar sig mot en mörk fond: Vietnamkriget pågår, det litterära klimatet i Sverige hårdnar gradvis. De bå[...]
Tomas Tranströmer och Robert Bly har varit vänner länge och det har varit en djup och varm vänskap. De lärde känna varandra på sextiotalet, och den första delen av brevväxlingen utspelar sig mot en mörk fond: Vietnamkriget pågår, det litterära klimatet i Sverige hårdnar gradvis. De bå[...]
Här ges en klar och djup bild av ett stort lyriskt författarskap. Robert Bly är en av USA:s viktigaste poeter och författare till den omtalade ”mansboken” Järn-Hans. Översättning Lasse Söderberg och Tomas Tranströmer.[...]
Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collection of more than 400 deeply moving poems from renowned artists including Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore,[...]
From an interoffice memo to a fifty-page proposal, this is the definitive guide to business writing. Anyone who has ever had to write any business document will find "The Elements of Business Writing" the single most effective tool for producing clear, concise, and persuasive prose. Equally useful t[...]
In the tradition of The Elements of Style, here is a concise handbook of the principles and practice of writing effective ads, brochures, and every other type of copy intended to persuade. It covers writing headlines and body copy as well as increasing readership and response, and goes on to provide[...]
For poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, a National Book Award-winning poet brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the major German poets of the century.[...]
"Morning Poems is a sensational collection -- Robert Bly's best in many years. Inspired by the example of William Stafford, Bly decided to embark on the project of writing a daily poem: Every morning he would stay in bed until he had completed the day's work. These 'little adventures/In Morning long[...]
Robert Bly's new collection of poetry is made of forty-eight poems written in the intricate form called the ghazal, which is the central poetic form in Islam. The influence of Hafez and Rumi is clear, and yet the poems descend into the wealth of Western history, referring at times to Monet, Giordano[...]
Today's number 1 copywriter shows you how to grab attention and drive sales with customer-focused, results-based Web copy. In "The Online Copywriter's Handbook", Robert Bly - one of the world's most honored copywriters and the bestselling author of "The Copywriter's Handbook" - turns his attention t[...]