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Iron John - Men and Masculinity (Paperback, New Ed)
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Iron John - Men and Masculinity (Paperback, New Ed)
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List price R420
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American poet and storyteller Bly analyses the development of men
and masculinity through the ages; in particular, he explores the
symbolism in the Grimm brothers' tale 'Iron John'. 'What I am
suggesting is that every modern male has a large primitive being at
the bottom of his psyche,' Bly tells us. But this is no textbook;
it is the work of a poet well versed in legend and psychology
struggling to look into his own soul. (Kirkus UK)
Robert Bly writes that it is clear to men that the images of adult
manhood given by popular culture are worn out, that a man can no
longer depend on them. Iron John searches for a new vision of what
a man is or could be, drawing on psychology, anthropology,
mythology, folklore and legend. Robert Bly looks at the importance
of the Wild Man (reminiscent of the Wild Woman in Women Who Run
With the Wolves), who he compares to a Zen priest, a shaman or a
woodman. '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
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