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Born in December 23, 1926 / United States / English

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

  • Bly, Robert, Silence in the Snowy Fields, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1962.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 1, 1973, Volume 2, 1974, Volume 5, 1976, Volume 10, 1979, Volume 15, 1980, Volume 38, 1986.
  • Contemporary Poets, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2001.
  • Daniels, Kate and Richard Jones, editors, On Solitude and Silence: Writings on Robert Bly, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1982, pp. 146-152.
  • Davis, William V., Understanding Robert Bly, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 1989.
  • Davis, William Virgil, Robert Bly: The Poet and His Critics, Camden House (Columbia, SC), 1994.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1980.
  • Friberg, Ingegard, Moving Inward: A Study of Robert Bly's Poetry, Acta University Gothoburgensis, 1977.
  • Heep, Hartmut, A Different Poem: Rainer Maria Rilke's American Translators Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, and Robert Bly, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 1996.
  • Howard, Richard, Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States since 1950, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1969, revised edition, 1980.
  • Lacey, Paul A., The Inner War: Forms and Themes in Recent American Poetry, Fortress Press, 1972.
  • Lensing, George S., and Ronald Moran, Four Poets and the Emotive Imagination: Robert Bly, James Wright, Louis Simpson, and William Stafford, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1976.
  • Malkoff, Karl, Escape from the Self: A Study in Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1977.
  • Mersmann, James F., Out of the Vietnam Vortex: A Study of Poets and Poetry against the War, University Press of Kansas (Lawrence, KS), 1974, pp. 113-157.
  • Molesworth, Charles, The Fierce Embrace: A Study of Contemporary American Poetry, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1979.
  • Nelson, Howard, Robert Bly: An Introduction to the Poetry, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1984.
  • Newsmakers 1992, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
  • Ossman, David, The Sullen Art, Corinth, 1963.
  • Peseroff, Joyce, editor, Robert Bly: When Sleepers Awake, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1984.
  • Poems for Young Readers, National Council of Teachers of English, for the Houston Festival of Contemporary Poetry, 1966.
  • Roberson, William H., Robert Bly: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, Scarecrow (Lanham, MD), 1986.
  • St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2000.
  • Shaw, Robert B., editor, American Poetry since 1960: Some Critical Perspectives, Dufour, 1974, pp. 55-67.
  • Smith, Thomas R., editor, Walking Swiftly: Writings and Images on the Occasion of Robert Bly's 65th Birthday, Ally Press (St. Paul, MN), 1992.
  • Stepanchev, Stephen, American Poetry Since 1945: A Critical Survey, Harper (New York, NY), 1965, pp. 185-187.
  • Sugg, Richard P., Robert Bly, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1986.

PERIODICALS

  • America, September 28, 1996, William J. O'Malley, review of The Sibling Society, p. 34.
  • American Dialog, winter, 1968-69.
  • Antioch Review, summer, 2002, John Taylor, review of The Roads Have Come to an End Now, p. 535.
  • Book, January-February, 2002, Stephen Whited, review of The Night Abraham Called to the Stars, p. 70.
  • Booklist, October 15, 1994, Ray Olson, review of Meditations on the Insatiable Soul, p. 395; April 1, 1996, Ray Olson, review of The Sibling Society, p. 1322; May 1, 1999, Ray Olson, review of Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems, p. 1573.
  • Boundary 2, spring, 1976, pp. 677-700, 707-725.
  • Carleton Miscellany, Volume XVIII, number 1, 1979-80, pp. 74-84.
  • Chicago Review, Volume 19, number 2, 1967.
  • Chicago Tribune Book World, May 3, 1981; February 28, 1982, p. 2.
  • Christian Science Monitor, January 23, 1963.
  • Commonweal, July 23, 1971, pp. 375-380.
  • Detroit News, December 5, 1990, p. 3D.
  • English Studies, April, 1970, pp. 112-137.
  • Explicator, fall, 1999, Tom Hansen, review of Surprised by Evening, p. 53.
  • Far Point, fall-winter, 1969, pp. 42-47.
  • Globe and Mail (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), April 4, 1987; December 8, 1990, p. C10.
  • Harper's Magazine, August, 1968, pp. 73-77; January, 1980, p. 79.
  • Hollins Critic, April, 1975, pp. 1-15.
  • Hudson Review, autumn, 1968, p. 553; spring, 1976; spring, 1978; summer, 1987.
  • Iowa Review, summer, 1972, pp. 78-91; spring, 1973, pp. 111-126; fall, 1976, pp. 135-153.
  • Lamp in the Spine, number 3, 1972.
  • Library Journal, October 15, 1994, p. 62; July, 1996, Terry McMaster, review of The Sibling Society, p. 140; June 1, 1997, Fred Muratori, review of Morning Poems, p. 103; October 1, 1998, Mary Ann Hughes, review of The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine, p. 118; June 1, 1999, Frank Allen, review of Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems, p. 118.
  • Listener, June 27, 1968.
  • London, December, 1968.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 18, 1980, p. 9; December 29, 1985, p. 11; October 26, 1986, p. 4; November 30, 1986, p. 11; December 2, 1990.
  • Maclean's, July 22, 1996, John Bemrose, review of The Sibling Society, p. 61.
  • Michigan Quarterly Review, spring, 1981, pp. 144-154.
  • Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine, January, 1994, p. 38.
  • Modern Language Quarterly, March, 2001, Margaret Bruzelius, "The Kind of England . . . Loved to Look upon a Man," p. 19.
  • Modern Poetry Studies, winter, 1976, pp. 231-240.
  • Moons and Lion Tailes, Volume II, number 3, 1977, pp. 85-89.
  • Nation, March 25, 1968, pp. 413-414; November 17, 1979, pp. 503-504; October 31, 1981, pp. 447-448; November 26, 2001, Ian Tromp, review of Stargazing and Sufi Poetics, p. 54, review of The Night Abraham Called to the Stars, p. 54.
  • National Catholic Reporter, February 7, 1997, Andres Rodriguez, review of The Sibling Society, p. 23.
  • National Review, May 20, 1996, Florence King, review of The Sibling Society, p. 66.
  • New Republic, November 14, 1970, pp. 26-27; January 3, 1994, p. 31A; September 16, 1996, David Bromwich, review of The Sibling Society, p. 31.
  • New Statesman, November 15, 1996, Kirsty Milne, review of The Sibling Society, p. 47.
  • Newsweek, November 26, 1990, pp. 66-68.
  • New York Review of Books, June 20, 1968; November 28, 1996, Diane Johnson, review of The Sibling Society, p. 22.
  • New York Times, May 3, 1986; May 16, 1996.
  • New York Times Book Review, September 7, 1975; January 1, 1978; March 9, 1980, p. 8; April 26, 1981; February 14, 1982, p. 15; January 22, 1984, p. 1; October 13, 1985, p. 15; May 25, 1986, p. 2; February 22, 1987, p. 34; September 30, 1990, p. 29; December 9, 1990, p. 15; May 29, 1994, Richard Tillinghast, review of The Darkness around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford, p. 10; December 31, 1995, Bruno Maddox, review of The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures, p. 8; October 11, 1998, Karen Lehrman, review of The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine, p. 11; November 18, 2001, Noah Isenberg, review of The Half-Finished Heaven, p. 68.
  • New York Times Magazine, February 3, 1980, p. 16.
  • Ohio Review, fall, 1978.
  • Partisan Review, Volume XLIV, number 2, 1977.
  • Poetry, June, 1963; March, 1996, Ben Howard, review of Meditations on the Insatiable Soul, p. 346; April, 2002, John Taylor, review of The Night Abraham Called to the Stars, p. 45.
  • Prairie Schooner, summer, 1968, pp. 176-178.
  • Publishers Weekly, May 9, 1980, pp. 10-11; October 12, 1990; March 25, 1996, review of The Sibling Society, p. 70; September 14, 1998, review of The Maiden King, p. 61; March 29, 1999, review of Eating the Honey of Words, p. 97; July 26, 1999, review of The Best American Poetry 1999, p. 84; April 23, 2001, review of The Night Abraham Called to the Stars, p. 73.
  • Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, number 29, 1975, pp. 95-117.
  • San Francisco Review of Books, July-August, 1983, pp. 22-23.
  • Schist I, fall, 1973.
  • Sewanee Review, spring, 1974.
  • Shenandoah, spring, 1968, p. 70.
  • Star Tribune, December 2, 2001, John Habich, Weird Elation, p. E1.
  • Texas Quarterly, number 19, 1976, pp. 80-94.
  • Times Literary Supplement, March 16, 1967; February 20, 1981, p. 208.
  • Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), April 12, 1987, p. 5.
  • TWA Ambassador, December, 1980.
  • U.S. News & World Report, June 24, 1996, John Leo, review of The Sibling Society, p. 24.
  • Utne Reader, May-June, 1996, interview with Robert Bly, p. 58.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, winter, 1963.
  • Washington Post, October 23, 1980; February 3, 1991, p. F1.
  • Washington Post Book World, April 1, 1973, p. 13; January 5, 1986, p. 6; December 14, 1986, p. 9; November 18, 1990, p. 1.
  • Western American Literature, spring, 1982, pp. 66-68; fall, 1982, pp. 282-284.
  • Win, January 15, 1973.
  • Windless Orchard, number 18, 1974, pp. 30-34.
  • World Literature Today, autumn, 1981, p. 680; spring, 1994, Ashley Brown, review of Gratitude to Old Teachers, p. 378; winter, 2000, Michael Leddy, review of The Best American Poetry, 1999, p. 172.

ONLINE

  • Menweb, http://www.menweb.org/ (July 5, 2003), Bert H. Hoff, interview with Robert Bly.
  • PBS Web site, http://www.pbs.org/ (July 5, 2003), "No Safe Place: Violence against Women" (interview with Robert Bly).
  • Robert Bly Home Page, http://www.robertbly.com/ (July 5, 2003), Frances Quinn, interview with Robert Bly.