Robert Bly's
Loving a Woman in Two Worlds(1985) is in many ways a sequel to his previous book,
The Man in the Black Coat Turns(1981); indeed, the two books are specifically connected, as is made explicit by the fact that “Fifty Males Sitting Together”, the first poem in
Loving, is a revision of one of the last poems in
Black Coat. Thus, if in
Black CoatBly collected poems that grew naturally out of his work with “men's groups” and that stressed “male consciousness”, in
Lovinghe collected poems that grew out of his work with “women's groups” and that have to do with “female consciousness”. Not surprisingly – especially because these are “love poems”, and because of Bly's use of blatantly sexual imagery in many of them – this book met with considerable…
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