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In 1966, Bly co-founded American Writers Against the Vietnam War, and went on to lead much of the opposition to that war among writers.

In 1968, he signed the “ Writers and Editors War Tax Protest ” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the war.

When he won the National Book Award for The Light Around the Body, he contributed the prize money to that resistance.

During the sixties he was of great help to the Bengali Hungryalist poets who faced anti-establishment trial at Kolkata, India.

During the 1970s, he published eleven books of poetry, essays, and translations, celebrating the power of myth, Indian ecstatic poetry, meditation, and storytelling.

During the 1980s he published Loving a Woman in Two Worlds, The Wingéd Life: Selected Poems and Prose of Thoreau, The Man in the Black Coat Turns, and A Little Book on the Human Shadow.