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Robert Bly, ‘Iron John’ Author and Men’s Movement Leader, Dies at 94

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Star Tribune. Bly won a National Book Award for his 1967 poetry collection “The Light Around the Body.” According to the New York Times, he donated his $1,000 prize to the draft resistance and was as outspoken in opposing the Vietnam War as he was as an advocate for poetry in modern American life. (He co-founded American Writers Against the Vietnam War.)But his most famous book — 1990’s “Iron John: A Book About Men” — marked a major departure from his previous work.

Exploring fairy tales and myths to tease out the origins of gender roles, he made a case that American men had become too soft and needed to reconnect with their primal nature to become better fathers and leaders.

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