Presents English translations of selected works by twenty-two poets, writing in several languages, and includes comments from the translator on each featured poet. Includes selections from Antonio Machado, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, and others.
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.
Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," in which a mentor or "Wild Man" guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of images long forgotten -- images of a vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered.
A collection of seventy-five contemporary poems, selected as representative of the best American poetry of 1999 by guest editor Robert Bly, presented alphabetically by author's last name, with notes and comments by and about the contributors.
