Prominent Jungian therapist"s creative-non-fiction work, combining a long poem reminiscent of W. C. Williams" Paterson, and a prose essay, dealing with the history, mythology, and psychology of the element, iron. Drawing from world mythology, particularly Nigerian "Vodoun" and Ancient Greece, Nor Hall writes with psychological insight and literary flare about a subject that, though rarely discussed, is at the root of industrial modernity.