The Light Around the Body

Name: The Light Around the Body
ISBN: 9781619026957

by Robert Bly

National Book · 1968 · Winner

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PoetryISBN 9781619026957

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Award for Poetry	1968	Winner

About the Author

Robert BlyAmerican

Robert Elwood Bly (1926-2021) was an American poet, essayist, translator, and activist best known for his poetry collections like Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962) and The Light Around the Body (1968, National Book Award winner), as well as his prose work Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which inspired the mythopoetic men's movement.