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Robert Bly



Robert Bly (1926–2021) was an American poet, activist, and leader of the mythopoetic men’s movement. In addition to his vast collection of poetry and translations, he is well known for his anti-war protest efforts, his theories on the roots of social problems, and his efforts to help men reclaim and channel their masculinity in a positive manner.

Robert Bly
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Challenge of the Heart: Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Changing Times

This powerful collection of essays by such notables as D. H. Lawrence, Robert Bly, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Rainer Maria Rilke focuses on the challenges of love between men and women, addressing the questions and difficulties arising for people in relationships today.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe ecstasy comes after thought, after discipline imposed on ourselves, after grief.

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I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs

In this insightful anthology, the editors grouped almost 200 poems into pairs to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics.

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Robert Bly - Prayer for My Father

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Kabir: Ecstatic Poems

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.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI know men who are healthier at fifty than they’ve ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

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David Deida and the Three Knights of Iron John

When we set out on the path of growth, it is helpful to have a map of the inner realms we are about to explore. - David Deida

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Robert Bly, Poet, About Zeus Energy, Fatherhood and Manhood, with Bill Moyers 1990

Robert Bly interviewed by Bill Moyers in 1990. Part of a long interview dealing with being a man in modern society and the confusing role of the father in the life of men both old and young and how most fathers only share their temperament when they get home but not their teaching.

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The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine

From Robert Bly, author of the groundbreaking bestseller Iron John, and famed Jungian analyst Marion Woodman comes an interpretation of a primordial folktale that takes the message behind Iron John to its next phase: the reunion of masculine and feminine.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of my personality.

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