Bly examines male initiation and the price we pay for undervaluing ritual in our culture, using colors as a metaphor for the stages of a man's life.
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Robert Bly lives on a farm in his native state of Minnesota. He edited The Seventies magazine, which he founded as The Fifties and in the next decade called The Sixties. In 1966, with David Ray, he organized American Writers Against the Vietnam War. The Light Around the Body, which won the National Book Award in 1968, was strongly critical of the war in Vietnam and of American foreign policy. Since publication of Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), a response to the women's movement, Bly has been immensely popular, appearing on talk shows and advising men to retrieve their primitive masculinity through wildness. Bly is also a translator of Scandinavian literature, such as Twenty Poems of Tomas Transtromer. Through the Sixties Press and the Seventies Press, he introduced little-known European and South American poets to American readers. His magazines have been the center of a poetic movement involving the poets Donald Hall, Louis Simpson, and James Wright.
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The Red, White, and Black,
By Coni Young (Bartlesville, OK USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Red, White and Black (Audio Cassette)
I read this book while taking a college American history class. The book was assigned by the Professor. I have read many books on history through school and though they made interesting reading they still felt like work. But from the first page of The Red, White and Black I was hooked. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I read it almost non-stop. I so enjoyed it that after the class was through I wanted to share it with others and loaned it out, but it was never returned. (By the way that was over 5 years ago.) Therefore, I am looking to buy a new one. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in how America was born and the role it's people played in it's development and the effect they had on each other. Great Reading!Still interested, Coni Young
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