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Iron John a book about men

Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," in which the narrator, or "Wild Man," guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of archetypes long forgotten-images of vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered.Simultaneously poetic and down-to-earth, it comb...

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Main Author: Bly, Robert
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : DaCapo Press, 2004.
Edition:1st DaCapo Press ed.
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Men > United States.
Masculinity.
Men > United States > Psychology.
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Summary:Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," in which the narrator, or "Wild Man," guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of archetypes long forgotten-images of vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered.Simultaneously poetic and down-to-earth, it combines the grandeur of myth with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories.
Physical Description:xv, 268 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:0306813769 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780306813764 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Author Notes:Robert Bly lives on a farm in his native state of Minnesota. He edited The Seventies magazine, which he founded as The Fifties and in the next decade called The Sixties. In 1966, with David Ray, he organized American Writers Against the Vietnam War. The Light Around the Body, which won the National Book Award in 1968, was strongly critical of the war in Vietnam and of American foreign policy. Since publication of Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), a response to the women's movement, Bly has been immensely popular, appearing on talk shows and advising men to retrieve their primitive masculinity through wildness.

Bly is also a translator of Scandinavian literature, such as Twenty Poems of Tomas Transtromer. Through the Sixties Press and the Seventies Press, he introduced little-known European and South American poets to American readers. His magazines have been the center of a poetic movement involving the poets Donald Hall, Louis Simpson, and James Wright.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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