biography
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Bly, Robert (Elwood)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Poet and writer, born in Madison, Minnesota, USA. He studied at St Olaf College, MN (1946–7), Harvard (1950 BA), University of Iowa (1956 MA), and eventually settled in Moose Lake, MN. He was a magazine founder and editor, and is known for translations as well as for his own poetry. His Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), a controversial work propounding his views on the need for modern men to rediscover their essential maleness, unexpectedly if temporarily turned him into a cross between a minstrel and a guru as he toured the land strumming his harp and explaining his ideas. |
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