SOURCE: Davis, William V. “The Poetry of Male Consciousness: The Man in the Black Coat Turns” and “The Poetry of Female Consciousness: Loving a Woman in Two Worlds.” In Robert Bly: The Poet and His Critics, pp. 53-69. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1994.
In the following excerpt, Davis summarizes critical reaction to Bly's The Man in the Black Coat Turns and Loving a Woman in Two Worlds, works he associates with the poet's exploration of male and female consciousness, respectively.
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