[Lecture and poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, November 5, 1970] / Robert Bly.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo in English Dept. trailer B (located on the South Campus) on Thursday, November 5, 1970 at noon on 2 sound cassettes. Recorded by and acquired from Allen De Loach. Recording ends with Neil Young and Grateful Dead music as a time filler.

Disc 1 features a lecture on poetics by Robert Bly. He speaks about being a magazine editor of "The sixties" and "The seventies." He opines about the rise and failure of narrative genre in American modern poetry and the novel. He lectures about "leaping poetry" whereby poets jump from the physical world to the psychic or idea world. He discusses the historical poets who have made great strides in the art of writing the poem, until consciousness and a lack of meditation inhibited this poetic process' progress. He teaches about William Blake's Songs of innocence (which he notes that Allen Ginsberg will be reading on campus in a few weeks). He teaches about poets who have the ability to "leap" such as William Carlos Williams, John Logan, W.S. Merwin, Galway Kinnell, Federico Garc?

Robert Bly.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1970

Sound recording

INT012

Disc 1.Lecture --reading from translation of Federico Garc?

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