Robert Bly
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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. Bly has long been the voice of transcendentalism and meditative mysticism for his generation; every stage of his work is warmed by his devotion to the art of poetry and his affection for the varied worlds that inspire him. Influenced by Emerson and Thoreau alongside spiritual traditions...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"Few forms of storytelling have greater power to captivate the human mind than fairy tales, but where do these tales originate from, and what do they mean? Celebrated poet and bestselling author Robert Bly has been asking these questions throughout his career. Here Bly looks at six tales that have stood the test of time and have captivated the poet for decades, from "The Six Swans" to "The Frog Prince." Drawing on his own creative genius, and the...
Author
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dozens of proven methods to get more done in less time, from the author of The Copywriter's Handbook and Little Blue Book of Business Wisdom.
Make Every Second Count goes beyond the usual time-management books to bring you a much broader range of strategies and tactics—you'll discover how to maximize your time by setting priorities, create useful schedules, overcome procrastination, and boost your energy level and...
Make Every Second Count goes beyond the usual time-management books to bring you a much broader range of strategies and tactics—you'll discover how to maximize your time by setting priorities, create useful schedules, overcome procrastination, and boost your energy level and...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In this timeless and deeply learned classic, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it means to be a man. Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men, as well as on 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...
Author
Publisher
Adams Media, a division of F + W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A dictionary of "big and intellectual" words"--
The most compendious collection of words for aspiring scholars, this book helps you hold your own in intellectual discourse. Featuring 2,400 sophisticated, obscure, and obtuse terms, each page provides you with the definitions you need to know to lock academic horns with the clerisy. From antebellum and eleemosynary to impasto and putative, you will quickly master hundreds of erudite phrases that will...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This is a book for everyone who writes or approves copy: copywriters, multichannel marketers, creative directors, freelance writers, marketing managers . . . even small business owners and information marketers. It reveals dozens of copywriting techniques that can help you write both print and online ads, emails, and websites that are clear, persuasive, and get more attention-and sell more products. Among the tips revealed: *8 headlines that work--and...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
At last in English is a wide selection from the great Persian poet Hafez, so beloved in Iran that almost every family there keeps his Divan close at hand. When Robert Bly and Coleman Barks visited Iran, they heard schoolchildren singing Hafez poems at his graveside. For some fifteen years, the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn has worked with Robert Bly to produce this translation, which for the first time carries into English Hafez's nimbleness,...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
"This book should be at the elbow of every executive writing reports, position papers, proposals, or any other business communication [as] the only classic reference to effective business writing....This is a great reference book that will hone your writing to a scalpel-sharp edge." The Libey Letter. "'The Elements of Technical Writing' covers the basics of spelling, grammar, and style. In addition, it covers the finer points of creating excellent...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has a prestigious worldwide reputation many expect that he will someday win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Transtromer's, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Transtromer's poems to create this collection.
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