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(1926-2021) Poet. Robert Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, and died in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Full Name

Robert Bly

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1926

BIRTH

Robert Elwood Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County in Minnesota on December 23, 1926.

1950

RESIDENCE

Mr. Bly lived in New York City for about three years in the early 1950s.

1962

LITWORK

Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems
Wesleyan University Press
0819510157 / 978-0819510150
Poetry.

1967

LITWORK

The Light Around the Body
Harper & Row Publishers

Poetry, winner of the National Book Award for poetry in 1968.

1981

LITWORK

The Man In The Black Coat
Dial Press
0385271867 / 978-0385271868
Poetry.

1985

LITWORK

Loving A Woman In Two Worlds
Doubleday
0385274181 / 978-0385274180
Poetry.

1986

LITWORK

Selected Poems
Perennial Library
0060153342 / 978-0060153342
Poetry.

1990

LITWORK

Iron John: A Book About Men
Addison-Wesley
0201517205 / 978-0201517200
Nonfiction.

1996

LITWORK

The Sibling Society: An Impassioned Call for the Rediscovery of Adulthood
Da Capo Press
0201406462 / 978-0201406467
Nonfiction.

1998

LITWORK

Morning Poems
Harper Perennial
0060928735 / 978-0060928735
Poetry.

2004

LITWORK

The Insanity of Empire: A Book of Poems Against the War in Iraq
Ally Press
0915408570 / 978-0915408573
Poetry.

2018

LITWORK

Collected Poems
W. W. Norton & Company
0393652440 / 978-0393652444
Poetry.

2021

DEATH

Robert Bly died at his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 21, 2021.

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