Background
Bly, Robert was born on December 23, 1926 in Madison, Minnesota, United States. Son of Jacob Thomas and Alice (Aws) Bly.
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The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now—these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead the simple statement that in nine lines can embody a mood, reveal a profound truth, illuminate in an important way the inward and hidden life. This is a poet of the modern world, thoroughly aware of the complexities of the moment but equally mindful of the great stream of life—all life—of which mankind is only a part.
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Wesleyan University Press is pleased to present a special miniature edition of this best-selling volume of poetry by Robert Bly. Originally published in 1962, Silence in the Snowy Fields was Bly’s first book, and one of the first volumes of poetry published by Wesleyan. Silence in the Snowy Fields disarmed readers and critics with its clear-sighted intelligence and apparent simplicity. Unlike much of the academically based American poetry of its time, this poetry aimed at a kind of Eastern balance in which human beings participate in but do not dominate nature. Many still find this one of Bly's most healing books. The entire book is reproduced in this irresistable small format.
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The London Times Literary Supplement described Robert Siegel's poetry as "unpretentious versatility," "like returning to the mainland after a tour of the islands." In this latest collection of poems, Siegel brings his remarkable range and technical mastery to bear on the mysteries of creation - wolves, slugs, moles, fireworks, mowing - all hauntingly interwoven with mythical themes.
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("There's a silence at the heart of this poetry, intensifi...)
"There's a silence at the heart of this poetry, intensified by evocative woodcuts that suggest an absence of time and linear thought. Jumping Out of Bed is a graceful testament to the spirit."-Wyatt Townley, Small Press
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Jumping Out Of Bed is a collection of poems by Robert Bly. It is also an unusually attractive collaboration of verbal and visual images. Wang Hui-Ming's splendid woodcuts illustrate the poems. The joys of solitude, the discovery of correspondences among all forms of life and matter, the delights of being --rather than striving -- are themes which run through the book. Bly has also included several translations from the Chinese. Each translation is accompanied by the original text, in calligraphy, by Wang Hui-Ming. Tje
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First Edition, 1st printing. Inscription to previous owner (from Mom & Dad), otherwise his book is clean and bright, with no creases, no tears, and no markings. Price-clipped dustjacket has a litte wear to the edges, otherwise it's also in excellent condition.
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(First edition. A collection of poems by Robert Bly, winne...)
First edition. A collection of poems by Robert Bly, winner of the National Book Award. Signed and illustrated by the author on the front free endpaper, taking up most of the page! xii, 62, 4 pages. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 8vo..
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(The latest collection of poems by the acclaimed author of...)
The latest collection of poems by the acclaimed author of Iron John. In this first gathering of all-new work in nine years, Bly enters the political landscape, speaking of the greed that has firmly established itself in this country since the Reagan/Bush years.
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( A Brilliant Collection Spanning Half A Century, From On...)
A Brilliant Collection Spanning Half A Century, From One Of America's Most Prominent And Powerful Poets Robert Bly has had many roles in his illustrious career. He is a chronicler and mentor of young poets, was a leader of the antiwar movement, founded the men's movement, and wrote the bestselling book Iron John, which brought the men's movement to the attention of the world. Throughout these activities, Bly has continued to deepen his own poetry, a vigorous voice in a period of more academic wordsmiths. Here he presents his favorite poems of the last decades-timeless classics from Silence in the Snowy Fields, The Man in the Black Coat Turns, and Loving a Woman in Two Worlds. A complete section of marelous new poems rounds out this collection, which offers a chance to reread, in a fresh setting, a lifetime of work dedicated to fresh perspectives. It is a brilliant collection that confirms Bly's role as one of America's preeminent poets writing today.
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( The astonishing collection of the translations Robert B...)
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, Jiménez, Traströmer, 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."
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(The astonishing collection of the translations Robert Bly...)
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, Jimenez, Trastromer, 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."
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( Readers have found Robert Bly's ghazals startling and n...)
Readers have found Robert Bly's ghazals startling and new; they merge wildness with a beautiful formality. My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy is Robert Bly's second book of ghazals. The poems have become more intricate and personal than they were in The Night Abraham Called to the Stars, and the leaps even bolder. This book includes the already famous poem against the Iraq War, "Call and Answer": "Tell me why it is we don't lift our voices these days / And cry over what is happening." The poems are intimate and yet reach out toward the world: the paintings of Robert Motherwell, the intensity of flamenco singers, the sadness of the gnostics, the delight of high spirits and wit. Robert Bly is writing the best poems of his life, and this book reestablishes his position as one of the greatest poets of our era.
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The Grimm Brothers recorded the story of Iron John among their collection of historic fairy tales. Robert Bly uses this story to illustrate the Wild Man as one of six masculine archtypes. The Wild Man in this story is Guardian of a sacred spring. He also represents the old men who traditionally guide the initiation of young boys. . "The Pillow and the Key" discusses the opening scenes in which the boy makes contact with the Wild Man and releases him from his cage. "When A Hair Turns Gold" is the tale of the boy as he sits for three days beside the holy pond and attempts to guard it himself. The Wild Man helps the novice to move out of childhood.
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( Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-brea...)
Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow -- the dark side of the human personality -- and the importance of confronting it.
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(Essays discuss the human subconscious (the shadow to our ...)
Essays discuss the human subconscious (the shadow to our mind), suppression, aggression, the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and writers' use of the subconscious Title: A Little Book on the Human Shadow Author: Bly, Robert/ Booth, William Publisher: Harpercollins Publication Date: 1992/06/01 Number of Pages: 81 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: 87045687
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( It is very dangerous when a wound is so common in a cul...)
It is very dangerous when a wound is so common in a culture that hardly anyone knows there is a problem. Such is the case right now with our wounded feeling function- our inability to find joy, worth, and meaning in life. Robert A. Johnson, the celebrated author of 'He, She', and 'We', revisits two medieval tales and illuminates how this feeling function has become a casualty of our modern times. Johnson tells the story of the Wounded Fisher King from the Grail Myth to illustrate the anxiety and loneliness that plague men. From the folktale of the Handless Maiden, he explains the very different frustrations of women and describes how these disparities in the way we suffer account for much of the tension and miscommunication between men and women. His insightful analysis shows that these two stories, created centuries ago, are even more relevant today. Robert A. Johnson, a noted lecturer and Jungian analyst, is also the author of 'He, She, We, Inner Work, Ecstasy, Transformation', and 'Owning Your Own Shadow'.
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( Leaping Poetry is Robert Bly's testament to the importa...)
Leaping Poetry is Robert Bly's testament to the importance of the artistic leap that bridges the gap between conscious and unconscious thought in any great work of art. Part anthology and part commentary, Bly seeks to rejuvenate modern Western poetry through his revelations of “leaping” as found in the works of poets from around the world, while also outlining the basic principles that shape his own poetry.
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( Acclaimed poet and translator Robert Bly here assembles...)
Acclaimed poet and translator Robert Bly here assembles a unique cross-cultural anthology that illuminates the idea of a larger-than-human consciousness operating in the universe. The book’s 150 poems come from around the world and many eras: from the ecstatic Sufi poet Rumi to contemporary voices like Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov, Charles Simic, and Mary Oliver. Brilliant introductory essays trace our shifting attitudes toward the natural world, from the old position” of dominating or denigrating nature, to the growing sympathy expressed by the Romantics and American poets like Whitman and Dickinson. Bly’s translations of Neruda, Rilke, and others, along with superb examples of non-Western verse such as Eskimo and Zuni songs, complete this important, provocative anthology.
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( Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-brea...)
Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow -- the dark side of the human personality -- and the importance of confronting it.
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(Essays discuss the human subconscious (the shadow to our ...)
Essays discuss the human subconscious (the shadow to our mind), suppression, aggression, the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and writers' use of the subconscious Title: A Little Book on the Human Shadow Author: Bly, Robert/ Booth, William Publisher: Harpercollins Publication Date: 1992/06/01 Number of Pages: 81 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: 87045687
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(Forty-four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir "Kabir's poems...)
Forty-four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir "Kabir's poems give off a marvelous radiant intensity. . . . Bly's versions . . . have exactly the luminous depth that permits and invites many rereadings, many studyings-even then they remain as fresh as ever." -The New York Times Book Review
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(9 Audio Cassettes/12.5 Hours) In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man. Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men and reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of remote fathers and mourns the disappearance of male initiation rites in our culture. Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," in which the narrator, or "Wild Man," guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of archetypes long forgotten-images of vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered. Bly embraces ancient, long forgotten images and myths that portray a vigorous and engaging masculinity, and he draws upon a cornucopia of legend and literature - as varied as the poetry of William Blake, Sioux initiation rituals, Jungian psychology, the novels of D.H. Lawrence, and the Homerian epics - to encourage men in their pursuit of the inner warrior. Simultaneously poetic and down-to-earth, combining the grandeur of myth with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories, Iron John is a rare work that will continue to guide and inspire men and women for years to come.
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(Robert Bly looks beyond the individual psyche to the prob...)
Robert Bly looks beyond the individual psyche to the problems of our public life, explaining why we as a culture are so adrift. What he finds is an infantilized society in which the battle between youth and age has been won by youth. Bly argues that in the collapse of the old patriarchal world-view, we are becoming a world of "siblings" who do not look up to heroes, leaders, or God, but only sideways at an army of siblings like ourselves. Through the psychological lessons embedded in ancient folk tales, Bly challenges us to move beyond our own adolescent envy and fantasy.
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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored." Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books. There are now 65,000 titles available (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon. Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website.
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Title: A Nineteenth Century and Familiar History of the lives, loves, and misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa ... A poem ... Illustrated with ten engravings. By Robert Rabelais, the Younger. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Rabelais, Robert; 1819. xvii. 384 p. ; 8º. 11641.g.33.
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Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, and introduces everyday events of the streets and marketplace into the rarified world of Victorian poetry. This edition includes examples from the early Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); from the masterpieces Mena and Women (1855) and Dramatis Personae (1864), and from the less familiar works of his later years. Together they convey the intensity, the lyric beauty, and the vitality of Browning's poetry. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, and introduces everyday events of the streets and marketplace into the rarified world of Victorian poetry. This edition includes examples from the early Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); from the masterpieces Mena and Women (1855) and Dramatis Personae (1864), and from the less familiar works of his later years. Together they convey the intensity, the lyric beauty, and the vitality of Browning's poetry. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, and introduces everyday events of the streets and marketplace into the rarified world of Victorian poetry. This edition includes examples from the early Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); from the masterpieces Mena and Women (1855) and Dramatis Personae (1864), and from the less familiar works of his later years. Together they convey the intensity, the lyric beauty, and the vitality of Browning's poetry. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Bly, Robert was born on December 23, 1926 in Madison, Minnesota, United States. Son of Jacob Thomas and Alice (Aws) Bly.
Student, St. Olaf College, 1947. AB, Harvard, 1950; Master of Arts, University Iowa, 1956.
Writer and poet; served United States Navy 1944-1946. First book, Silence in the 172 Snow>’ Fields, publ. 1962; f. The Fifties 1958, later The Sixties and Seventies Press.
F. American Writers Against the Vietnam War 1966. Fulbright.
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(Essays discuss the human subconscious (the shadow to our ...)
( Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-brea...)
( Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-brea...)
( Acclaimed poet and translator Robert Bly here assembles...)
( The astonishing collection of the translations Robert B...)
(The astonishing collection of the translations Robert Bly...)
( Leaping Poetry is Robert Bly's testament to the importa...)
(The London Times Literary Supplement described Robert Sie...)
( A Brilliant Collection Spanning Half A Century, From On...)
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( From nesting and hatching to diving and feeding, in-dep...)
( From nesting and hatching to diving and feeding, in-dep...)
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Author: (poems) Silence in the Snowy Fields, 1962, (with William Duffy and James Wright) The Lion's Tail and Eyes: Poems Written Out of Laziness and Silence, 1962, The Light Around the Body, 1967 (National Book award 1968), Chrysanthemums, 1967, Ducks, 1968, The Morning Glory, 1969, The Teeth Mother Naked at Last, 1971, (with William E. Stafford and William Matthews) Poems for Tennessee, 1971, Christmas Eve Service at Midnight at Senior Michael's, 1972, Water Under the Earth, 1972, The Dead Seal Near McClure's Beach, 1973, Sleepers Joining Hands, 1973, Jumping Out of Bed, 1973, The Hockey Poem, 1974, Point Reyes Poems, 1974, Old Man Rubbing His Eyes, 1975, The Loon, 1977, This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood, 1977, Visiting Emily Dickinson's Grave and Other Poems, 1979, This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years, 1979, The Man in The Black Coat Turns, 1981, Finding an Old Ant Mansion, 1981, Four Ramages, 1983, The Whole Moisty Night, 1983, Out of the Rolling Ocean, 1984, Mirabai Versions, 1984, In the Month of May, 1985, A Love of Minute Particulars, 1985, Selected Poems, 1986 (Los Angeles Times Poetry award nominee 1986), Loving a Woman in Two Worlds, 1987, The Moon on a Fencepost, 1988, The Apple Found in the Plowing, 1989, What Have I Ever Lost By Dying?, 1992, Meditations on the Insatiable Soul, 1994, Morning Poems, 1997, Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems, 1999, The Winged Energy of Delight, 2004, My Sentence was a Thousand Years of Joy, 2005. (non-fiction) A Broadsheet Against the New York Times Book Review, 1961, Talking All Morning: Collected Conversations and Interviews, 1980, The Eight Stages of Translation, 1983, The Pillow and the Key, 1987, A Little Book on the Human Shadow, 1988, American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity, 1990, Iron John: A Book About Men, 1990, Remembering James Wright, 1991, The Sibling Society, 1996, ( with Marion Woodman) The Maiden King, 1998. Editor: The Sea and the Honeycomb, 1966, A Poetry Reading Against the Viet Nam War, 1967, Forty Poems Touching Upon Recent History, 1970, Leaping Poetry, 1975, News of the Universe, 1980, Ten Love Poems, 1981, The Fifties and the Sixties, 10 vols., 1982, The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau, 1986, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men, 1992, The Darkness Around Us is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford, 1993, The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy, 1995. Editor, The Best American Poetry, 1999. Translator (from Swedish) The Story of Gösta Berling (Selma Lagerlöf), 1962, I Do Best Alone at Night (Gunnar Ekelöf), 1968, Twenty Poems of Tomas Tranströmer), 1972, Night Vision (Tomas Tranströmer), 1972, Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets, Matinson, Ekelöf and Tranströmer, 1975, (from Norwegian) Knut Hamsun Hunger, 1967, Twenty Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, 1977, Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge, 1987, (from German) Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl, 1961, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1980, (from Spanish) Twenty Poems of Cesar Vallejo, 1963, Forty Poems of Juan Ramon Jimenez, 1967, Twenty Poems of Pablo Neruda, 1967, Lorca and Jímenez: Selected Poems, 1973, Time Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado, 1983, (with Lewis Hyde) (from Spanish) Twenty Poems of Vincente Aleixandre, 1977, (from Spanish), (prose) The Eight Stages of Translation, 1983, A Little Book on the Human Shadow, 1986, American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity, 1990, Remembering James Wright, 1991, (from French) Ten Poems of Francis Ponge, 1990, Ten Poems of Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge, 1990, (from Rajasthani) Mirabai Versions, 1993, (from Hindi and English) The Kabir Book: 44 of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, 1977, The Lightning Shouls Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems of Ghalib (with Sunil Dutta), 1999.
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1945. Member American Academy Arts and Letters.
Married Carolyn McLean, June 24, 1955 (divorced 1979). Children: Mary, Bridget, Noah Matthew Jacob, Micah John Padma. Married Ruth Ray, June 27, 1980.