Iron John

By: Robert Bly

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Paperback | 2 August 2001 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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

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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"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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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Men and Boys Mind, Body, Spirit

Preface
The Pillow and the Key	p. i
When One Hair Turns Gold	p. 28
The Road of Ashes, Descent, and Grief	p. 56
The Hunger for the King in a Time with No Father	p. 92
The Meeting with the God-Woman in the Garden	p. 123
To Bring the Interior Warriors Back to Life	p. 146
Riding the Red, the White, and the Black Horses	p. 180
The Wound by the King's Men	p. 207
Epilogue: The Wild Man in Ancient Religion, Literature, and Folk Life	p. 238
The Story of Iron John	p. 250
Notes	p. 260
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