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His most famous, and most controversial, work was “Iron John: A Book About Men,” which made the case that American men had grown soft and feminized. It made him a cultural phenomenon.
Though an award winner for his poetry, the writer found his greatest fame for a work of prose, his 1990 meditation on modern masculinity.
Poet Robert Bly, who authored the men’s movement classic “Iron John,” has died
He started out writing bucolic poems about rural Minnesota and became a best-selling author teaching men how to be in touch with their feelings. He was 94.
Bly donated his 1,000 dollars prize money to the draft resistance movement.