Preface: The prophet speaks fire from the provinces / James P. Lenfestey -- Introduction: Robert Bly in this world (and the other) / Thomas R. Smith -- Lessons from Robert Bly's barn / Lewis Hyde -- Shadows on the prairie: where the gift gathers / Patricia Kirkpatrick -- Birth of a revolution: The Fifties / William Duffy -- Under the sign of Odin: Robert Bly's wild little magazine / Mark Gustafson -- Bly and Wright: a passionate poem / Anne Wright -- Antonio Machado's eyeglasses: the influence of Robert Bly's translations on American poetry / Ray Gonzalez -- So much happens when no one is watching / Daniel Deardorff -- Small engine repair: thirty-five years of the Annual Conference on the Great Mother and the New Father, organized by Robert Bly / John Rosenwald -- Notes and pieces on speaking poems and stories, learning by heart / Gioia Timpanelli -- A little book project with Robert Bly / William Booth -- Praising the soul in women and men: Robert Bly and the Men's Movement / Thomas R. Smith -- Robert Bly: still taking on the wor(l)d / VIctoria Frenkel Harris -- Robert Bly's poetry: the later years / Howard Nelson -- Robert Bly in the shadow of Hafiz / Leonard Lewisohn -- Releasing birds to the air (and two poems) / Coleman Barks -- Appendix 1: Tributes by Jane Hirschfield, Donald Hall, Hugh Van Dusen, Myra Shapiro, Kim Stafford, Nils Peterson -- Appendix 2: Laurie Hertzel: the poet comes home -- Appendix 3: Robert Bly chronology.