Robert Bly Book order (chronological)

Imaginative prose poems showcase a blend of wit and delight, offering readers a unique and engaging experience. The author's playful language and creative expression invite exploration of themes and emotions, making each piece a captivating journey. The work stands out for its ability to entertain while provoking thoughtful reflection.

Robert Bly's ghazals blend a sense of wildness with an elegant structure, captivating readers with their originality. These poems explore deep emotions and themes, presenting a fresh perspective that resonates with the audience. Bly's unique voice and innovative style make his work both striking and memorable.

Dr. Jekyll ist ein guter, mitfühlender und zivilisierter Mensch. Immer wieder aber ergreift die dunkle, triefhafte Persönlichkeit des Dr. Hyde von ihm Besitz. Robert Bly sieht in dieser anderen Persönlichkeit die Schattenseite des Menschen, den C. G. Jung den „Schatten“ nennt. Unser ganzes Leben schleppen wir einen großen Sack hinter uns her, beladen mit den Teilen unseres Selbst, die weder unsere Eltern noch die Gesellschaft und schließlich auch wir selbst nicht annehmen wollen, beladen mit Aggression und unterdrückten Trieben. Er kommt zu dem Schluss, dass wir in diesen unbekannten und unterdrückten Teil der Psyche eintauchen müssen, um unser Leben zu ändern. Wir müssen die Hexe und den Riesen wieder zu einem Teil unseres Selbst machen.

Robert Bly, americký básník, esejista a autor „Železného Jana“ v této útlé knížce shromáždil svá čtení z let 1971 a 1983 věnovaná jungovskému konceptu stínu, která doplňuje rozhovor s Boothem a esej o poezii Wallace Stevense. Společným motivem všech pěti kapitol je právě stín, o němž Bly mluví jako o „dlouhém pytli, který vlečeme za sebou“. Nezkoumá ho jazykem analytické psychologie, nýbrž jazykem básnickým, a pomocí barvitých obrazů a příběhů ukazuje, co dělat, abychom získali zpátky energii, kterou jsme do tohoto pytle odložili a zabránili tak i jejímu zneužívání. „To, co básnická čtení Roberta Blye ve skutečnosti říkají, je: ‚Musíte změnit svůj život.‘ Slyšet tak závažné básně a odolat veškeré změně je horší věc než ztráta času; je to nebezpečné.“ Takto Knížku o lidském stínu uvádí její editor William Booth.

The 25th anniversary edition of Robert Bly's classic explores a new vision of masculinity, reflecting on the impact of absent fathers and lost initiation rites. Using the Grimm tale "Iron John," Bly highlights stages of male growth and the importance of deep, protective masculinity. This profound work inspires both men and women.

From 1950 through the present, this collection of monumental work from the voice of transcendentalism and meditative mysticism for his generation celebrates the uncanny beauty of the everyday.

A stunning collection of poems by Mirabai, the fifteenth-century female Indian ecstatic poet. Like Coleman Barks's translations of Rumi, this collection of poems by Mirabai will appeal to anyone interested in spiritual poetry.

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 importance to the contemporary reader and praises Bly's intuitive translations.By making every reader consider anew their religious thinking, the poems of Kabir seem as relevant today as when they were first written.

Autoři společnými silami, třebaže každý zvlášť, rozluštili v metafoře zakódované tajemství našich vnitřních světů. Předestírají před námi pohádku jako návod k nalezení ztracené rovnováhy mezi ženským a mužským elementem našeho já. Ruští bohatýři a zlé baby jagy jako tajemné pochody našeho podvědomí? Došli jsme v naší západní kultuře k bodu, kdy ženy už tolik nemilují muže? Proč by mělo být jedno pohlaví obdařeno větším dílem lásky než druhé? Oba autoři se snaží nahlédnout pod povrch věcí.

Robert Bly writes that it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by popular culture are worn out, that a man can no longer depend on them. Iron John searches for a new vision of what a man is or could be, drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, folklore and legend. Robert Bly looks at the importance of the Wild Man (reminiscent of the Wild Woman in Women Who Run With the Wolves), who he compares to a Zen priest, a shaman or a woodman. schovat popis

Robert Bly, Jahrgang 1926, ist ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Protagonist der US-amerikanischen Männerbewegung.

Robert Bly's ground-breaking anthology of spiritual poems, the result of over a decade of personal research, celebrates the ongoing role of the divine in literature. For as long as people have lived together in communities and built enduring cultures, they have sung and written about their relationship with the god or gods they believed in. In the words of the Irish writer Sean O'Faolain, "all good writing in the end is the writer's argument with God." The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy gathers poems from a wide range of cultures and traditions and divides them into ten parts, each forming a resonant exploration of a specific and timeless spiritual question. Selections include the work of Dante, Dogen, Goethe, Hafez, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Kabir, Lalla, Li Po, Mirabai, Mary Oliver, Owl Woman, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Rumi, in addition to Blake, Dickinson, Donne, Hopkins, Stevens, Yeats, and other important English and American poets. Together these poems form both a celebration and a quest--a kind of pilgrim's progress that embraces all the rich wisdom of East and West, ancient and modern, male and female, spirit and flesh.

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 adolescence and adolescents refuse to grow up.

Robert Bly, Jahrgang 1926, ist ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Protagonist der US-amerikanischen Männerbewegung.

"[The editors'] collaboration resulted in a book with a remarkable group of poets across the ages, from Emily Dickinson to Charles Bukowski, from Catullus to Bob Dylan. . . . These are poems focusing on concerns of the heart—fathers and sons, love and hurt, peace and war, anger, denial and zaniness." —  Seattle Post 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, Thomas Wolfe, Czeslaw Milosz, Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Neruda, and Nikki Giovanni.

n "a fascinating examination of myth, literature, psychology, and anthropology" (Newsday), National Book Award-winning poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man. "Important and timely."--New York Times Book Review. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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 initiation rites in our culture. Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," in which the narrator, or "Wild Man," guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of archetypes long forgotten-images of vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered.Simultaneously poetic and down-to-earth, combining the grandeur of myth with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories, Iron John is a rare work that will continue to guide and inspire men-and women-for years to come.

The relationship of fathers and sons, the power of grief, and the meaning of nature are some of the main themes of this collection of short poems

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.

In this new collection of poems, the National Book Award-winning poet explores the meaning of mature love in a sustained meditation on faithfulness, on the sustenance of intimacy, and on grief as the door to deep emotion

"Few major achievements of world literature are as little known to Americans as the great ecstatic poetry of the Hindus and Sufis, as exemplified by the work of the 15th century master, Kabir. Irreverent while being intensely religious, Kabir seems incredibly playful in his taunting of the sacred dogmas of his time--to readers accustomed to the solemnity and ideological fidelity of most Western religious poems. Kabir has been translated into English only once before, by Rabindranath Tagore and Evelyn Underhill. Unfortunately, Tagore's Victorian English was simply not equal to Kabir's directness, spontaneity, and irreverent humor. Working from the Tagore-Underhill translation, Bly has done much more than retranslate into American diction. A noted poet himself, he has breathed new life into the work of a fascinating poet"--From back cover.

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate artistic expression. The book probes the psychodynamics of alienation and obsession, painting an unforgettable portrait of a man driven by forces beyond his control to the edge of self-destruction. Hamsun influenced many of the major 20th-century writers who followed him, including Kafka, Joyce and Henry Miller.