BINDING: Postcard in a postally used business sized envelope addressed to the author. 

PROVENANCE:  Serendipity Books of Berkeley.  Probably sold by Kay Lawder Ellyard of Berkeley to Peter Howard.

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Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.

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[Kenyon College Alumni Obituary]  Douglas "Doug" W. Lawder Jr. '57 of Alamos, Mexico, on November 5, 2009. He was seventy-five. 

 Doug was an English major and the president of Psi Upsilon. He became a forest ranger and an advertising copywriter before earning a master of fine arts degree at the University of Oregon in 1968. Doug taught at Earlham College and later joined the faculty at Michigan State University, retiring from there as an associate professor of English emeritus in 1993. He was, for a time, the managing editor of the Northwest Review. Doug was also a celebrated poet. 

His 1977 book of poetry, Trolling, was described by Choice as "a collection to savor ... and a book that all libraries with any interest in American poetry should acquire." His book Binoculars won the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Contest of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies in 2000. He read poetry from Trolling during a 1982 reunion visit to Kenyon. He was described, in the Alumni Bulletin, as "a powerfully built man" who spoke in "an almost whispery voice." One poem recounted a college road trip to the Florida Keys and a boat ride to Cuba, and the poem had an "eerie, surrealistic haze about it." 

 Doug's sister, Kay Lawder Ellyard of Berkeley, California, said the Kenyon experience was "very important in his life" and he made lasting friendships. "He was very influenced and challenged by the heady, intellectual climate there," she said. Doug turned to poetry, she said, after his experience in writing advertising copy was less than fulfilling. In addition to his sister, Doug was survived by his daughter, Leland Hyatt; son, Douglass Lawder; two grandchildren; and a brother, Stan Lawder.