The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations

The astonishing collection of the translations Robert Bly has been producing for more than fifty years, introducing foreign poets to American readers for the first time.Robert Bly has always been amazingly prescient in his choice of poets to translate. The poetry he selected supplied qualities that seemed lacking from the literary culture of this country. At a time when editors and readers knew only Eliot and Pound, Bly introduced Neruda, Vallejo, Trakl, Jim_nez, Trastr_mer, and Rumi. His most recent translations include Rolf Jacobsen, Francis Ponge, and the nineteenth-century Indian poet Ghalib. Here, in The Winged Energy of Delight, the poems of twenty-two renowned and lesser-known poets from around the world are brought together. As Kenneth Rexroth has said, Robert Bly "is one of the leaders of a poetic revival that has returned American literature to the world community."

Robert Bly is the author of the bestseller Iron John, as well as The Maiden King and The Sibling Society. He is the editor of The Fifties, The Sixties, The Seventies, and The Thousands, and the author of many books of poems, most recently The Night Abraham Called to the Stars. His awards include two Guggenheims and the National Book Award. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.