[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, October 10, 1963] / Robert Bly.

Recorded at the Baird Hall Recital Room, University at Buffalo on October 10, 1963 on a 7 inch Ampex reel-to-reel tape.

Oscar Silverman introduces poet Robert Bly who reads from Silence in the snowy fields. Bly takes twenty minutes of questions from the audience about the state of modern poetry.

Robert Bly.

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

1963

Sound recording

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reading from Issa. --Unanswered letters --White ducks --A poem for the drunkard president --A busy man's feet --from Robert Bly's translation of a work by Rainer Maria Rilke. --reading from a poem by Walt Whitman. --On listening to Stevenson and Kennedy lie about the first Cuban invasion --[first line of poem:][Come with me into those things] --[first line of poem:][I love these old] --Surprised by evening --Afternoon sleep --Taking the hands of someone you love --Night --A walk inthe gardens of Italy --After drinking all night with a friend, we go out in a boat at dawn to see who can write the best poem --At the funeral of great aunt Mary --Sleet storm in the Merritt Parkway --Suffocation --from Robert Bly's translation of a work by Rainer Maria Rilke:Questions. --After the Industrial Revolution, all things happened at once --For Darwin.

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