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Robert Bly in 2008
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He was one of the greatest American poets of the past fifty years.
Robert Bly has now died at the age of 94.
His daughter Mary Bly announced that he died in his Minneapolis home on Sunday after suffering from dementia for 14 years.
She told the Associated Press, “My father was in no pain.
His whole family was around him, so how much better can you do? "
Robert Bly was born and raised in Madison in western Minnesota.
In 1968 he won the National Book Award for his second collection of poetry, "The Light Around the Body," a book of poems to protest against the Vietnam War.
Bly donated the $ 1,000 prize money to the resistance movement against military service.
However, Bly achieved his greatest fame with a prose work called "Iron John: A Book About Men" (original title), which called for a return to true masculinity.
His meditation on modern masculinity was published in 1990 and was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than two years.
Mary Bly announced that the funeral services will be private.
She urged her fans to send commemorative donations to their favorite poet associations.
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