As a poet, translator, editor, and educator, ROBERT BLY has consistently challenged our assumptions about poetry, art, societal roles, and contemporary culture. In the process, he has been instrumental in revitalizing American poetry’s connection to the ancient arts of mythmaking and storytelling, and infusing it with divergent voices from many cultures. The editor of the influential anthologies, Leaping Poetry (1978) and News of the Universe (1980), and author of the controversial bestseller Iron John: A Book About Men, his many poetry volumes include the National Book Award-winning The Light Around the Body (1967), and, more recently, The Night Abraham Called to the Stars (2001), Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems (1999), Morning Poems (1997), Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (1985), and The Man in the Black Coat Turns (1981).