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Poet Robert Bly looks forward and back in new collection

St. Paul, Minn. — Minnesota poet Robert Bly has enjoyed a successful, but contentious, career. A winner of the National Book Award for poetry, he's internationally known for his English translations of major poets from around the world.

He's also infamous to some for his 1990 book "Iron John," which became the basis for a men's movement of sorts.

Now 84, Bly has just published a new collection called "Talking into the Ear of a Donkey." It's filled with humor, memories, and grief.

Sitting in the living room of his Minneapolis home on a recent summer day, Bly reads a poem from his new book. Bly smiles broadly.

"That's kind of cute," he says to himself. When asked where the poem came from, he answers without looking up.

"I haven't any idea," he replies. "I haven't any idea where this came from. I look at it with amazement myself."

With more than 40 books of poetry and prose to his name already, perhaps that isn't surprising. After decades of writing, Robert Bly still describes it as an adventure.

"A poem is always like going downhill in a sled," he says. "And you just hope that it'll gain some speed and that you won't crash at the end, and that you'll say, 'Oh wow! That's amazing!'"

But it's never a sure thing. Bly discards a lot of what he writes.

"Either I am lying about myself, or lying about someone else," he says. "Or simply my imagination fails and it's stupid. So there's a lot of throwing out that happens when you are doing a book of poems."

"Talking into the Ear of a Donkey" is filled with images from the modern world, as well as the ancient, the sacred and the profane. In one, the Super Bowl rubs shoulders with Longinus, the Roman soldier said to have speared Christ on the cross.

A reader will find a strong undercurrent of longing and grief in some of the new works. In others, those emotions break the surface -- as in this poem. Bly pauses and looks up.

"That's what it feels like when you get to be my age," he says. "Each of us deserves to be forgiven, if only for our persistence in keeping our small boat afloat when so many have gone down in the storm."

Robert Bly has a reputation for fierceness at times, often railing against what he saw was wrong with the world. His book "Iron John" urged men to be more self aware and assert the positives of manhood. It attracted international attention, and a huge backlash.

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