IRON JOHN

Bly, Robert

ISBN 10: 185230233X / ISBN 13: 9781852302337

Published by Element Books, Dorset, 1991

About this Item

First UK Edition. first print. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) of the UK edition with no statement of reprint to the copyright page. In a good jacket which is not price clipped, fade to spine and some rubbing, small split to top corner, Internally pencil, and only pencil, notation to some pages. Signed, dated and inscribed by the author to the title page. [ To John, Robert Bly, Sep, 14, 1991 ] slight sketch by author incorporated into the inscription.

Seller Inventory # 016512

Bibliographic Details

• Title: IRON JOHN
• Publisher: Element Books, Dorset
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185230233X
• ISBN 13: 9781852302337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A fascinating & compelling commentary on being a male in today's world. Examines the classic male model of being & feeling; a combination of fierceness & tenderness long since sacrificed to the demands of the industrial revolution. Weaves his argument around the intriguing Grimm fairy story of Iron John (Hans) & links into mythology & symbolism galore. dw 1990, 268pp

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)