Suggested Readings

If you are interested in the work and ideas behind the Minnesota Men’s Conference, here are some books that will provide a good grounding in our work and that of past conference leaders. The list below is far from exhaustive and includes only authors who have appeared at our conferences. It should be considered a small sample of the notions that have been discussed over the decades of conferences and events. Sources for these books can be found online, however we encourage you to support your local booksellers.

Iron John, A book About Men

By Robert Bly

The Sibling Society, An Impassioned Call for the Rediscovery of Adulthood

By Robert Bly

The Soul’s Code, In Search of Character and Calling

By James Hillman

The Healing Wisdom of Africa

By Malidoma Some

Secrets of the Talking Jaguar

By Martin Prechtel

The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche

By Daniel Deardorff

Men and the Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of Men

By Michael Meade

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, Poems for Men

By Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade

My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems

By Robert Bly

Poems I Brought Down from the Mountain

By Humberto Ak’abal, translated by Miguel Rivera

The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind and Ecology

By Robert Bringhurst