Robert Bly wrote poetry, translations and prose about masculinity, myth and psychological development. His poetry collections use plainspoken images, landscape and political reflection, while Iron John became his best-known prose work by retelling the Grimm tale of Iron Hans through Jungian and mythopoetic ideas about male initiation, fathers and emotional development. The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, edited with James Hillman and Michael Meade, gathers poems used within the same broader movement around myth and men's inner lives. Bly's prose is symbolic, associative and more literary than clinical, using folktale and archetype rather than empirical psychology. His work fits modern poetry, mythopoetic men's writing and Jungian-influenced cultural criticism. Read more Less
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