(born 1946) Bly’s Iron John places him at the head of the recent “Men’s Movement” and eclipses his prior eminence as poet, translator and theorist. In either mode, Bly insists that post-Enlightenment culture has gone awry but that we may regain our spiritual and poetic bearings if we refuse to be like (his?) daddy. Editor of The Fifties (and The Sixties and The Seventies). He introduced many North American readers to the world’s great poets (Neruda, Vallejo, Hernandez, Transtromer, even Rilke), yet Bly’s exoticized, loose translations of highly formal poems served him in his local battle against academic formalism.