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The anthology entitled Trees Grow Lively on Snowy Fields (Twelve Winters Press, 2021), featuring facing-page Chinese poems and English translations, includes ninety-nine poems by three generations of

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."

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

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Robert Bly, one of the most prominent American poets of the last half century and author of the best-selling men’s movement classic “Iron John,” has died. He

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Robert Bly, one of the most prominent American poets of the last half century and author of the best-selling men's movement classic

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

Bly published his first book of poems, "Silence in the Snowy Fields," in 1962. He won the National Book Award in 1968 for "The Light Around the Body," a book of Vietnam War protest poems. Bly donated the $1,000 prize money to the draft resistance movement.

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."