Ebook {Epub PDF} Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly

 · Robert Bly (–), writer and men’s movement founder. Robert Bly was a poet and writer best known for his book “Iron John: A . In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a bltadwin.ru's vision is based on his ongoing work with men and reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of remote fathers and mourns the disappearance of male initiation rites in our culture. Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses 4/5(8). Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John"-in which a mentor or "Wild Man" guides a young man through eight stages of male growth-to remind us of ways of knowing long forgotten, images of deep and vigorous masculinity centered Cited by:

Robert Bly is a poet, author, translator, activist, and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. Bly has received many awards, including the National Book Award, for his poetry; in , he was awarded the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Medal, a lifetime achievement award. ROBERT BL JOHN A BookAboutMen. This item: Iron John: A Book about Men. by Robert Bly Paperback. $ In Stock. Ships from and sold by bltadwin.ru FREE Shipping on orders over $ King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine. by Robert Moore Paperback. $

Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John"-in which a mentor or "Wild Man" guides a young man through eight stages of male growth-to remind us of ways of knowing long forgotten, images of deep and vigorous masculinity centered in feeling and protective of the young. Iron John: A Book About Men is a book by American poet Robert Bly, and an exegesis of Iron John, a parable belonging to the Grimms' Fairy Tales by German folklorists Brothers Grimm about a boy maturing into adulthood with help of the wild man. Published in by Addison-Wesley, the book is Bly's best-known work, having spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and went on to become a pioneering work in the mythopoetic men's movement. Robert Bly, who distilled the passions of the antiwar movement into poetry, his verses hailed as literary touchstone­s of the Vietnam era, and whose later best-selling book “Iron John” awakened a movement of men in search of deeper masculinit­y, died Nov. 21 at his home in Minneapoli­s. He was He had dementia, said his daughter, Mary.