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MINNEAPOLIS — Robert Bly, the National Book Award-winning poet who started out writing bucolic poems about rural Minnesota and went on to shake up the complacent world of 1950s poetry,

The influential and controversial writer's "Iron John" sparked the so-called "men's movement."

Poet Robert Bly, who authored the men’s movement classic “Iron John,” has died

The influential and controversial writer's "Iron John" sparked the so-called "men's movement."

Bly's meditation on modern masculinity, released in 1990, spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. A friend and colleague reflects, "The caricature became that he was John Wayne with a drum. That’s the opposite of what he was." Bly also was an advocate for poets of the American Midwest, and several poets in translation.

Robert Bly, the Minnesota poet, author and translator who articulated the solitude of landscapes, galvanized protests against the Vietnam War and started a controversial men's movement with a bestseller that called for a restoration of primal male audacity, died Sunday at his home in Minneapolis. He was 94.

MINNEAPOLIS – Robert Bly, one of the most prominent American poets of the last half-century and author of the best-selling mens movement classi ...

Robert Bly, one of the most prominent American poets of the last half century and author of the best-selling “Iron John,” has died. He was 94.

Influential American poet with an abiding interest in mysticism and the nature of masculinity

Though an award winner for his poetry, the writer found his greatest fame for a work of prose, his 1990 meditation on modern masculinity.