Prominent poet Robert Bly, author of 'Iron John', dies at 94
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
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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."