Books with author Robert Byr

Robert Bly has had many roles in his illustrious career. He is a chronicler and mentor of young poets, many of whom he presented in his series of edited books -- The Fifties, The Sixties, and The Seventies. He was a leader of the antiwar movement, founded the men's movement virtually by himself, and published the bestseller Iron John. All through these activities, he has continued to deepen his own poetry, a vigorous voice in a period of more academic wordsmiths. Now, in Eating the Honey of Words, he presents the best poems he has written in the last three decades, including favorites from his earlier books such as Silence in the Snowy Fields, The Man in the Black Coat Turns, and Loving a Woman in Too Worlds. Joining these timeless classics are a number of poems from these past decades never published before, as well as a complete section of marvelous new poems from the last two years. This book is a chance to reread, in a fresh setting, many of Bly's most famous early poems, and in some instances to see how they have changed over the years. In this new selection, one can see more clearly than ever the powerful undercurrents that carry this poetry from one book to the next. Eating the Honey of Words is a brilliant collection that confirms Robert Bly's role as one of America's preeminent poets writing today.The Face in the ToyotaSuppose you see a face in a ToyotaOne day, and you fall in love with that face,And it is Her, and the world rushes byLike dust blown down a Montana street.And you fall upward into some deep hole,And you can't tell God from a grain of sand.And your life is changed, except that now youOverlook even more than you did before;And these ignored things come to bury you,And you are crushed, and your parentsCan't help anymore, and the woman in the ToyotaBecomes a part of the world that you don't see.And now the grain of sand becomes sand again, And you stand on some mountain road weeping.

You'll fall in love with Bobbie and the many other endearing characters in this children's picture book. Bobbie is challenged by a special attribute that defines her personality, and propels her to spontaneously follow whatever may interest her at the moment -- leading her on adventures encountering interesting people and places. You might say she is extraordinarily creative and somewhat impulsive in her actions. In this story, Like Mother Like Daughter, family traits, just like family genes, are often passed down through generations. They can be viewed as negative or positive, but Bobbie has a wonderful family who accepts, loves, and appreciates her for who she is. As a special bonus, included with this picture book is a link to printable pages that you can download and color yourself.

For this visionary anthology, Robert Bly inspiredly selected 150 splendid poems from many cultures and historical periods: poems which illuminate the belief that human consciousness is just one of many kinds of consciousness at work in the universe. In wide-ranging, provocative essays, Bly traces a shimmering stream in poetry, reaching back to the 18th century, which branches away from the mainstream of poems, especially in Europe, that are literarily preoccupied with the alienated human individual. The stream traced by Bly instead flows towards poems that seek the sources of consciousness in the very molecules of other creatures and beings. Bly's thesis is exceptionally illustrated by poems and poets of great variety yet of common vision. Included: Blake, Goethe, Rilke, Baudelaire, Rumi, Kabir, Yeats, Dickinson, Whitman, Frost, Stevens, Levertov, Kinnell, Snyder, Lorca, Neruda, Akhmatova, Voznesensky, Bly himself, and many others.