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What has the author R D Bly written?

Robert Duncan Bly (December 9, 1926 – November 3, 2021) was an American poet, translator, and editor. He published over forty books including poetry, non-fiction prose, and translations, some of his best-known poems including:

Poetry/Fiction

- Sleepers Joining Hands (1973)

- This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood (1977)

- The Man in the Black Coat Turns (1981)

- Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (1985)

- Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart (1992)

- Eating the Honey of Words (1999)

- The Sibling Society (1996)

- My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2015)

Non-fiction

- American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity (1990)

- Iron John: A Book About Men (1990)

- The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (1996)

- The Sibling Society (1996)

- The Great Mother: An Anniversary Anthology of Ancient and Contemporary Poetry (1996)

- The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men (1992)

- The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir (2004)

- My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2015)

translations

- Kabir (poems translated from Old Hindi) (2004)

- News of the Universe: Poems of Hafiz (versions from the Persian) (2008)

Bly also authored or co-authored many other influential and widely cited non-fiction and poetic works across the span of his seven-decade creative and literary career..

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