Robert Bly
American poet and translator who championed Spanish surrealism and deep image poetry. Silence in the Snowy Fields is his breakthrough collection, and his translations of Neruda, Lorca, and Transtromer were widely read.
Works
- Silence in the Snowy FieldsMeditative poems celebrating silence, solitude, and Midwestern landscape
- The Light Around the BodyPolitical poems protesting Vietnam War and calling for inner transformation
- Sleepers Joining HandsLong poems exploring dreams, eroticism, and male consciousness
- Iron JohnProse meditation on masculine initiation and psychological wholeness
- Eating the Honey of WordsEssays on poetry, craft, and the hunger for authentic language