Robert Bly

Robert Bly is a American poet .

Biography

Born in 1926 in the Minnesota, Robert Bly remains in this area, with his wife and her three children, alive as a farmer, although driving of the activities of translator, editor, and especially of writer. A writer poet initially, inspired by the American landscapes, and impassioned by the Tale S and the Mythology. It also engages, fascinating position against the Guerre of Vietnam, and later against that of the Golfe.

As from 1980, it implies in the “Men' S Movement” incipient, animating conferences, groups of men “mythopoetic”, gatherings. This activity culminates in 1990, with the publication of a test, Iron John ( Jean de Fer - its only work translated into French, under the title the wild man and the child ), which knows an international diffusion and becomes a deliver-worship. This success gives him, without he seeking it, an image of leader. The groups of men inspired by his matter multiply in the United States, then in the majority of the developed countries, and some are enracinent durably.

In 1996, it publishes The Sibling Society ( the company of the brothers and sisters ), where it stigmatizes the behavior with eternal teenagers of the contemporary adults, explaining it by the absence of marked parental figures. In 1998, The Maiden King ( the virgin king ) written with Marion Woodman, explores the process of the development of the masculine and female at the man, starting from Russian tales.

Some quotations drawn from Iron John

“the contemporary thinkers évertuent themselves to describe the father-wire exchange in terms of identification or behavioral imitation, but I believe for my part that something is exchanged on a properly biological level, a little as if a substance passed directly from the cells of the father to those of the son. The youngest body learns how to collect the vibratory frequency of the male bodies.”
“to fight consciously assistance much in the relationship between men and women. A good brawl clears up the things and I think that the women want only one: to fight and live with men who can fight.”
“the majority of the psychological systems do not want to hear of expression of the male size. They see only inflation there; one is supposed to leave all the crowns in dust.”
“Our duty (and in this “our” I included all women and all men which writes on the questions of sexual identity) is to give masculine a description which does not exclude the masculine among women, while striking the cord which resounds in the heart of the man. Our duty is to give female description which does not exclude what is some at the men, but who makes resound an important cord in the heart of the woman.”

Works

the wild man and the child , Threshold, 1992

See too

Hominisme

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