Most Popular Books by Robert Bly

This bilingual selection of more than 50 of Nerudas best poems--edited and with an Introduction by the distinguished Latin American scholar Ilan Stavans and brilliantly translated by an array of well-known poets--also includes some poems previously unavailable in English.

Long after Pompeii''s destruction by Vesuvius, luminous images of "angels" remain on its decaying walls. Timeless and transcendant, they inspired photographer Stephen Brigidi and Robert Bly, the poet to collaborate on this stunning book. A glorious tribute to the power of angels in our lives, their collaboration an exquisitely conceived and produced volume that will be treasured by art lovers, the vast audience that embraces Robert Bly''s poetry, and the host of angel lovers.

Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir''s immense importance to the contemporary reader and praises Bly''s intuitive translations. By making every reader consider anew their religious thinking, the poems of Kabir seem as relevant today as when they were first written.

The collection consists of two sets of galley proofs, page proofs, gatherings and sample pages, all unannotated, from Bly''s book.

Mirabai is a legendary literary and spiritual figure. Born a princess in Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known) eschewed the marriage her royal family had arranged for her, celebrating instead her right to independence and intense devotion to Krishna in both her life and poetry. In this collection, two acclaimed poets, Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield, have created lively English versions of Mirabai''s poems, using fresh images and energetic rhythms to make them accessible to modern readers.

The poet conducts a self-examination of his life in poems that often address aging, memory, marriage, and living and dying well.

Science fiction fans and technology buffs will treasure this guide to the sci-fi ideas that have influenced and inspired scientific advances in the real world. Many of the most fascinating ideas in science originated not in the laboratory but in the minds of such science fiction writers as Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury. The former''s 1945 article on communications satellites was the original idea behind modern satellites; the latter''s Martian Chronicles has been attributed as the main inspiration behind NASA''s many missions to Mars. From bionics to black holes and warp factors to worm holes, this is the quintessential guide to the many links between science fiction and science reality.

Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collection of more than 400 deeply moving poems from renowned artists including Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore, Thomas Wolfe, Czeslaw Milosz, and Henry David Thoreau.

It is clear to men, Robert Bly writes, that the images of adult manhood given by popular culture are worn out. Drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, folklore and legend, Iron John searches for a new vision of what a man is or could be.