Eating the Honey of Words

<p><strong>Bly's imaginative prose poems radiate witty delight. -- <em>Library Journal</em></strong></p><p><strong>A brilliant collection spanning half a century from one of America's most powerful poets.</strong></p><p>Robert Bly had many roles in his illustrious career. He was a chronicler and mentor of young poets was a leader of the antiwar movement founded the men's movement and wrote the bestselling book <em>Iron John </em> which brought the men's movement to the attention of the world. Throughout these activities Bly continued to deepen his own poetry a vigorous voice in a period of more academic wordsmiths. Here he has presented his favorite poems of the last decades-timeless classics from <em>Silence in the Snowy Fields The Man in the Black Coat Turns </em> and <em>Loving a Woman in Two Worlds.</em> A complete section of marvelous new poems rounds out this collection which offers a chance to reread in a fresh setting a lifetime of work dedicated to fresh perspectives. </p>