Robert Bly, prominent Minnesota poet, dies at 95
Bly spent most of his life in his native Minnesota and was an active poet for more than 50 years, winning the National Book Award in 1968.
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Bly spent most of his life in his native Minnesota and was an active poet for more than 50 years, winning the National Book Award in 1968.
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Bly's meditation on modern masculinity, released in 1990, spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. A friend and colleague reflects, "The caricature became that he was John Wayne with a drum. That’s the opposite of what he was." Bly also was an advocate for poets of the American Midwest, and several poets in translation.
Robert Bly, the Minnesota poet, author and translator who articulated the solitude of landscapes, galvanized protests against the Vietnam War and star
Robert Bly, the Minnesota poet, author and translator who articulated the solitude of landscapes, galvanized protests against the Vietnam War and started a controversial men's movement with a bestseller that called for a restoration of primal male audacity, died Sunday at his home in Minneapolis. He was 94.