Stay updated with breaking news from Flight Around. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
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.