<DIV><DIV>Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir&#8217;s immense importance to the contemporary reader and praises Bly&#8217;s intuitive translations.<br><br>By making every reader consider anew their religious thinking, the poems of Kabir seem as relevant today as when they were first written.<br><br>&#8220;Robert Bly earns the thanks of us all. I, for one, will reread [Bly&#8217;s Kabir] often.&#8221; &#8212;Paul Carroll, American Poetry Review<br><br>&#8220;Kabir&#8217;s poems give off a marvelous radiant intensity that never fails . . . they have exactly the luminous depth that permits and invites many rereadings.&#8221; &#8212;Hayden Carruth, New York Times Book Review<br><br>&#8220;Without Bly, modern American poetry would be unrecognizable in its current form. Without his poems, his translations, and his devotion to poetry, American literature would have taken a different turn in its rich and influential history.&#8221; &#8212;Ray Gonz&#225;lez, The Bloomsbury Review<br><br>Robert Bly has earned many honors for his original poems, which include The Winged Energy of Delight, and for his translations of twenty-two poets, including Kabir. He is the author of the bestseller Iron John, and with Jane Hirshfield has published a new translation of Mirabai (Beacon / 6386-6 / $16.00).<br></DIV>