Robert Bly

 Now in English is a fine selection from the great Persian poet Hafez, so beloved in

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.

Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow -- the dark side of the human personality -- and the importance of confronting it.

A unique gathering of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, with the original Spanish versions and powerful English translations on facing pages. In a new preface, editor and translator Robert Bly explores what the poems reveal today about politics, the spirit, and the purpose of art.