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Bly won a National Book Award and was a tireless advocate for poetry. But he knew he could rub people the wrong way. "I do remember people wanting to kill me," he said, "but that's not unusual."

Bly won a National Book Award and was a tireless advocate for poetry. But he knew he could rub people the wrong way. "I do remember people wanting to kill me," he said, "but that's not unusual."

Bly won a National Book Award and was a tireless advocate for poetry. But he knew he could rub people the wrong way. "I do remember people wanting to kill me," he said, "but that's not unusual."

Robert Bly, the National Book Award-winning poet who started out writing bucolic poems about rural Minnesota and went on to shake up the complacent world of 1950s poetry, has died. He spent two years in the U.S. Navy, starting in 1944, working with radar and sonar.

Bly won a National Book Award and was a tireless advocate for poetry. But he knew he could rub people the wrong way. "I do remember people wanting to kill me," he said, "but that's not unusual."

Poet Robert Bly, a tireless advocate for his art form, who over the course of half a century transformed American poetry and was also central to the

The influential and controversial writer's "Iron John" sparked the so-called "men's movement."

Bly won a National Book Award and was a tireless advocate for poetry. But he knew he could rub people the wrong way. "I do remember people wanting to kill me," he said, "but that's not unusual."

The influential and controversial writer's "Iron John" sparked the so-called "men's movement."

Some toys sprang from failed scientific endeavors or accidents. Other were inspired by parents jobs.