"For 50 years, Bly has been amazingly prescient in his choice of poets to translate, supplying qualities that seemed lacking from our own literary culture. As Kenneth Rexroth has said, Bly ""is one of...

R0BERT 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 confr...

"Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by the 15th-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of profound humor and playful thought. Columbia Universit...

"The ghazal form is well known in Islamic culture but only now making its way into the poetics of the ""West,"" partly thanks to Bly's collection The Night Abraham Called to the Stars. The ghazal's co...

Drawing on the profound influence that Islamic poetry such as Rumi's has had on his work, one of our most distinguished poets transmutes the remarkable ghazal form into a stunning series of poems. A c...