One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears- By listening to them.

Poet, translator, and editor                          

Selected Works:

Poetry:

Turkish Pears in August: Twenty-Four Ramages - 2007
The Urge to Travel Long Distances - 2005
My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy - 2005
The Night Abraham Called to the Stars - 2001
Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems - 1999
Snowbanks North of the House - 1999
Morning Poems - 1997
Meditations on the Insatiable Soul - 1994
What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems - 1992
Loving a Woman in Two Worlds - 1985
Selected Poems - 1986
Mirabai Versions - 1984
The Man in the Black Coat Turns - 1981
This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years - 1979
This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood - 1977
Old Man Rubbing His Eyes - 1974
Jumping Out of Bed - 1973
Sleepers Joining Hands - 1973
The Light Around the Body - 1967 - won National Book Award
The Lion's Tail and Eyes - 1962
Silence in the Snowy Fields - 1962

Anthologies:

The Best American Poetry - 1999
The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures - 1995
The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford - 1993
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men - 1992
News of the Universe - 1980
Leaping Poetry - 1975
A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War - 1967

Translations:

Peer Gynt - verse play - by Henrik Ibsen - 2008
The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations - 2004
The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer - 2001
The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems of Ghalib - with Sunil Dutta, 1999
Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems - 1997
Ten Poems of Francis Ponge Translated by Robert Bly & Ten Poems of Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge - 1990
Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge - 1987
Machado's Times Alone: Selected Poems - 1983
Eight Stages of Translation - 1983
The Kabir Book - 1977
Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets — Martinson, Ekeloef, and Transtromer - 1975
Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems - 1971
Hunger - novel — by Knut Hamsun - 1967

Nonfiction:

Remembering James Wright - 2005
The Maiden King : The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine - co-authored with Marion Woodman - 1998
The Sibling Society, Addison-Wesley - 1996
The Spirit Boy and the Insatiable Soul - 1994
American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity - 1991
Iron John: A Book About Men - 1990
A Little Book on the Human Shadow, - with William Booth, 1988
Talking All Morning: Collected Conversations and Interviews - 1980                          

Mother  Alice 
Father Jacob Bly
First wife Carol Bly, four children,  Divorced
Second wife Ruth Ray, one stepdaughter. A stepson died in a pedestrian-train accident.