A volume of forty-eight new works by the author of "The Night Abraham Called to the Stars" features pieces of an intricate and personal nature and follows such topics as the compositions of Bach, the suffering of war, and the intensity of Flamenco singers.

Using the Islamic poetry form ghazal.

Robert Bly has had many roles in his illustrious career. Now, in Eating the Honey of Words, he presents the best poems he has written in the last three decades, including favorites from his earlier books such as Silence in the Snowy Fields, The Man in the Black Coat Turns, and Loving a Woman in Two Worlds. Joining these timeless classics are a number of poems from these past decades never published before, as well as a complete section of new poems...

Selected from throughout Bly's monumental body of work from 1950 through the present, we see how he has long been the voice of transcendentalism and meditative mysticism for his generation. In poetry spiritual yet worldly, celebrating the uncanny beauty of the everyday, Bly is a poet moved by the mysteries of the world around him, speaking the language of images in a voice brilliant and bold. From 1950 through the present, this collection of monumental...

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...

Anthology of the poetry of Robert Bly covering the past three decades with accompanying commentary.

Essays originally written over the past thirty years.