Iron Man Family Outing
Subtitle: poems about transition into a more conscious manhood
By: Rick Belden ; art by John Dolley.
Publisher: Plain View Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Masculinity -- Poetry.; Sex role -- Poetry.; Men -- Poetry.
Description: Inspired by a puzzling series of dreams about a favorite comic book hero from his boyhood, the author embarks upon an arduous but ultimately healing odyssey into a dark and damaged internal landscape, the wreckage of a childhood spent with an angry, abusive, distant father. As he begins to understand these dreams, and allows them to lead him forward, he also begins to accept his unique personal history, understand its consequences in his adult life, and take responsibility for his own healing.
Table of contents: title: introduction; title: part one: life behind this mask; title: part two: hungry wounds; title: part three: dance of the unloved child; title: part four: iron man dreams; title: part five: shadowland; title: part six: the unclaimed soul; title: part seven: hints of daylight