[Robert Bly interview and reading] /

Recorded for the series A Moveable Feast by producer and interviewer Paul Vitale. Presented on WBFO FM 88's Spoken Arts Radio Program by Paul Hogan as sponsored by Just Buffalo Literary Center.

Poetry reading and interview with Robert Bly. During his interview with Paul Vitale, Bly discusses meditation, iambic pentameter, rhyme, and the use of sound in the composition of poetry. He also challenges the academic opposition to prose poetry and encourages leaping poetry which jumps from the physical world to the psychic or idea world. Bly discusses his understanding of the American community of poets which is more academic and the South American community of poets which is rooted more in national grief and politics.

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

1986

Sound recording

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From four seasons in American woods --Johnson's cabinet as watched by ants --The teeth mother naked at last (first section) --Two sounds when you sit by the ocean --At the time of peony blossom --Every breath taken --Words rising.

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