In his numerous roles as groundbreaking poet, editor, translator, storyteller, and father of what he has called "the expressive men's movement,"The psychologist Robert Moore believes that "When the cultural and intellectual history of our time is written, Robert Bly will be recognized as the catalyst for a sweeping cultural revolution." And literary critic Charles Molesworth suggests that some of Bly's importance and complication lies in the fact that he "writes religious meditations for a public that is no longer ostensibly religious."
Bly's career is unparalleled by anyone in American literature today. He could easily be a Nobel Prize winner, but he is America's poet and we need to honor him now.