Iron John

Name: Iron John
Author: Robert Bly

by Robert Bly

Prose meditation on masculine initiation and psychological wholeness

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Robert Bly

American poet and translator who championed Spanish surrealism and deep image poetry. Silence in the Snowy Fields is his breakthrough collection, and his translations of Neruda, Lorca, and Transtromer were widely read.

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