Name: A Little Book on the Human Shadow
ISBN: 9780062548474

Robert Bly

Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow -- the dark side of the human personality -- and the importance of confronting it.

A Little Book on the Human Shadow

Simon Elliott Stegall

I scrawled "WTF" in many margins of this book: mostly the ones where Bly was wearing his psychoanalyst hat. But when he spoke as a poet, about poetry, about Wallace Stevens' poetry in particular, it was insightful and ripe and I learned quite a bit.

A mixed bag. Good thing it was only 80 pages.