Robert Bly

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...

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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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Presents authors with an alphabetical listing of common literary words and choices for other words with a similar meaning, along with definitions, pronunciation, antonyms, and sample sentences.