Sleepers Joining Hands

Long poems exploring dreams, eroticism, and male consciousness

About the author

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.

More by Robert Bly

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
Iron JohnProse meditation on masculine initiation and psychological wholeness
Eating the Honey of WordsEssays on poetry, craft, and the hunger for authentic language