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= The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men =

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men is a 1992 anthology of poems edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael J. Meade.

Title
The title of the work is explained in the epigraph, accredited to William Butler Yeats, "Those masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse or the sweeping of a street, Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can, Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart."

Although the secondary title of the work may impose a misogynistic opinion on itself, it is explained in the forward that, "by calling it Poems for Men [they] don't mean that this collection is not to be read by women; [they] would rejoice if women read it."