Robert Bly
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Bly at the "Poetry Out Loud" finals, Minnesota 2009 | |
| Born | Robert Elwood Bly December 23, 1926 |
| Died | November 21, 2021 (aged 94) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) University of Iowa (MFA) |
| Period | 1962–2018 |
| Subjects | Masculinity |
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| Children | 4, including Mary Bly |
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Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men’s movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.