Robert Bly

In the words of Irish writer Sean O’Faolain, “all good writing in the end is the writer’s argument with God.” Robert Bly’s new anthology celebrates the timeless role of the divine in literature, expressed by his choice of poetry from a wide range of religious traditions, historical periods, and literary movements.

Born of serious mudwrestling in the basement of the soul, Iron John is poet Robert Bly’s major prose work. A bestseller in 1991, it helped spawn the “mythopoetic men’s movement.” This generous, beautiful work is now republished with a new introduction that examines what it means to be a man today.

An extraordinary culmination for Robert Bly's lifelong intellectual adventure, Collected Poems presents the full magnitude of his body of work for the first time.

If shaving your head

Spelled spiritual success,

   Heaven would be filled with sheep.