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Robert Bly

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American poet, author, and activist (1926-2021)

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Robert Elwood Bly was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement.

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2013Robert Frost Medal
2008Anvil Award
2008Tomas Tranströmer prize
1968National Book Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fulbright Scholarship

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Robert Elwood Bly was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.

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United States
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Lived 1926 to 2021 · aged 94
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