by Robert Bly · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679731191
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«Iron John: A Book about Men» is Robert Bly's essay on masculinity, published by Vintage in paperback (268 pages, in English).
Drawing on the fairy tale of «Iron John», Robert Bly examines masculine myths and initiation rites to reflect on male identity and how distance from fathers influences emotional development. The book proposes a new vision of masculine maturity.
Work by Robert Bly, poet and translator and National Book Award winner, originally published in 1990. This 1992 Vintage paperback edition contains 268 pages.
Recommended for readers interested in studies on masculinity, psychology, and myth analysis from a social perspective.
Robert Elwood Bly was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.
