Robert Bly

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:translator
gptkb:Author
gptkb:poet
gptkbp:advocated_for gptkb:Men's_rights_movement
Environmentalism
gptkbp:associated_act gptkb:The_Men's_Movement
poetry readings
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:The_Beat_Generation
gptkb:The_New_York_School
gptkbp:award gptkb:National_Book_Award
gptkbp:birth_date 1926-12-23
gptkbp:born_in gptkb:Madison,_Minnesota
gptkbp:children gptkb:3
gptkbp:contributed_to gptkb:The_New_American_Poetry
gptkb:The_Norton_Anthology_of_Poetry
gptkb:The_Penguin_Anthology_of_Twentieth-Century_American_Poetry
gptkbp:death_date 2021-11-21
gptkbp:died_on 2021-11-21
gptkbp:education gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkb:University_of_Minnesota
gptkbp:famous_quote " Poetry is the language of the heart."
" The heart is a lonely hunter."
" The only thing that matters is the heart."
" The soul is not a thing, it is a process."
" We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
gptkbp:founded gptkb:The_American_Poetry_Review
gptkbp:genre gptkb:poetry
gptkb:children's_literature
gptkb:non-fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Robert Bly
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:David_Whyte
gptkb:Louise_Glück
Contemporary American poetry
Men's movement literature
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:William_Stafford
gptkb:Rainer_Maria_Rilke_IV
gptkb:Robert_Frost
gptkb:William_Carlos_Williams
gptkbp:is_taught_in gptkb:Goddard_College
gptkb:University_of_Minnesota
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:literary_criticism
Lyric poetry
Free verse poetry
Nature poetry
Spiritual poetry
translation of poetry
Socially engaged poetry
free verse poetry
Translations of poetry
Mythopoetic men's movement
Poetic translations
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:The_Light_Around_the_Body
gptkb:Iron_John
The Half-Finished Heaven
The Halfway Up
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:activists
gptkb:essayist
gptkb:poet
gptkbp:published gptkb:A_Little_Book_on_the_Human_Shadow
gptkb:The_Light_Around_the_Body
gptkb:Iron_John
gptkb:The_Best_American_Poetry_1999
The Half-Finished Heaven
My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy
News of the Universe
The Secret History of the American Dream
The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy
The Winged Energy of Delight
gptkbp:published_in gptkb:The_New_Yorker
gptkb:Poetry_Magazine
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Minnesota
gptkbp:spouse Ruth Bly
gptkbp:translated_into gptkb:Yves_Bonnefoy
gptkb:Rainer_Maria_Rilke_IV
gptkb:Gabriela_Mistral
gptkb:Pablo_Neruda
gptkbp:website robertbly.com
gptkbp:won_award gptkb:Frost_Medal
gptkb:National_Book_Award
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Rainer_Maria_Rilke_IV
gptkb:John_Keats
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkb:Walt_Whitman
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4