Irons In The Fire

Product Description This Book Is Described By Nor Hall As A Praisepiece To Duplicitous Metalartful And Harrowingand To Its Handlers. Part One, Irons In The Fire, Is A Prose Character Sketch Of Iron And Iron Workers, The People Who Work Iron And Cant Keep Their Hands Off It. These Are Strangely Passionate People (The Real Iron Johns And Janes!) With A Compulsion To Adore That Binds Them In An Essential Community Of Iron Men And Ferrous Women. Offering A History, Mythology, And Psychology Of The Element Iron, Both Alchemical And Industrial, This Work Is A Major Addition To The Tradition Of Nondogmatic Psychological Commentary On Myth That Includes Jung, Bachelard, And James Hillman, To Which Hall Adds A Profoundly Feminist Dimension. Review Hall Details . . . Contemporary Iron Artists Throughout The Country, And How Many Of The Ancient Rituals Still Shine Through . . .A Solid Contribution To The Growing Number Of Multigenre Texts, And Hall'S Research Into The Mytho/Psycho/Historical Roots Of Iron Is Both Fascinating And Compelling. Christopher Fischbach, Rain Taxi From The Back Cover Everything Nor Hall Touches Turns To Gold. Norman O. Brown This Praise Piece To Molten Metal Duplicitous, Artful And Harrowing And To Its Handlers Is Nor Hall'S Prose Character Sketch Of Iron And Iron Workers The People Who Work Iron And Can'T Keep Their Hands Off It. These Are Strangely Passionate People With A Compulsion To Adore That Binds Them In An Essential Community Of Iron Men And Ferrous Women. Offering A Brief History, Mythology, And Psychology Of The Element Iron Both Alchemical And Industrial Irons In The Fire Is Itself A Passionate, Inherently Erotic Contribution To Elemental Poetics. As A Nondogmatic Psychology And Phenomenology Grounded At Once In Art, Myth And Direct Experience, It Brings Both A Personal And Feminist Intensity To A Tradition That Includes Gaston Bachelard, C. G. Jung, And James Hillman. The End Of The Iron Age In Part Two Is An Extended Poetic Work, One Woman'S Love Song & Fear Song: An Epic Ode To Matters Of A Lifetime Out Of Which Iron'S Images Extrude. Borrowing A Structural Principle From W. C. William'S Paterson Yet Breaking Ground In Its Own Right, It Takes The Poetic Impulse Back To Epic Roots, Speaking Beyond Literature As Such, Straight To The Human Psyche Real & Profound, Anne Waldman Said Of It, 'Aroused By Metal,' There Is Always A Woman In The Fire! About The Author Eleanor L. Hall (B.1947). Hall Is A Jungian Psychotherapist And Widely Read Author Of Archetypal Studies Particularly On Gender Issues And Cultural Mythology. Residing In The Twin Cities For Thirtynine Years, She Has Practiced Archetypal Psychology Since 1972 While Maintaining A Career As A Mythopoetic Writer, Independent Lecturer, Workshop Leader, Consultant, And Theatre Artist. Her Work In Recent Years As A Research Dramaturg For Archipelago And Content Developer For New Plays Evolved Out Of Participation In Pantheatre'S Myth & Theatre Festivals. Hall Is A Volunteer Case Consultant For The Center For Victims Of Torture In Minneapolis, A Pacifica Graduate Institute Adjunct Faculty And Thesis Advisor, An Advisor For The Ashlar Institute On Trauma Issues, An Advisor For Spring: A Journal Of Archetype And Culture, An Advisor For Pantheatre, A Member Of The Walker Arts Center Producers' Council And Friend Of Rain Taxi Review Of Books. In 2011 She Was A Featured Guest At These Women!, A Conference In Santa Barbara At The Institute For Cultural Change That Was Named After Her Book Titled Those Women (1988) Republished As Dreaming In Red (2005).