Iron John: : " A Book About Men " : - Softcover

Bly, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306813769 ISBN 13: 9780306813764

Publisher: Da Capo Pr, 2004

Synopsis

In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man.Bly'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 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, combining the grandeur of myth with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories, Iron John is a rare work that will continue to guide and inspire men-and women-for years to come.

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Review:

"This book needs to be read, I believe, not as a dry work of scholarship to be judged coolly by the mind, but as the work of a poet struggling to convey an emotional experience and lead us to what he has found within himself" (Guardian)

"Eclectic and unclassifiable. Iron John is a work whose mentors are the prophetic poets and crazies, William Blake and Walt Whitman " (Sydney Morning Herald)

"Important. timely. and powerful" (New York Times)

Book Description:

The hugely influential international bestseller which has been acclaimed as the male equivalent of The Female Eunuch

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0306813769
• ISBN 13: 9780306813764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268