Robert Bly in This World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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In 1958, a powerful new voice in American poetry emerged from the windswept prairie farmland of western Minnesota. Beginning with publication of The Fifties, “a magazine of poetry, translation and general opinion,” Robert Bly’s transformative poetry, translations, essays, and poetry readings rolled across the country like an invigorating prairie storm. In his eighty-third year, to celebrate acquisition of his archives, the Elmer L. Andersen Library at the University of Minnesota sponsored a major conference, Robert Bly in This World. This is the record of that historic event. Scholars and authors from America and England presented papers on Bly’s poetry, translations, criticism, mythopoetic storytelling, and other major achievements, including his annual Great Mother and Minnesota Men’s conferences. A trip to Madison, Minnesota, where Bly’s writing studio has been restored and preserved on the Lac Qui Parle County fairgrounds, is also chronicled here, plus intimate appreciations by Bly’s friends and admirers Coleman Barks, Donald Hall, Jane Hirshfield, Lewis Hyde, and others. A vintage documentary on Bly, A Man Writes to a Part of Himself, screened at the conference, is included as a DVD in a supplement to the book. In Robert Bly’s long career as a poet and translator, he has authored more than forty volumes. His pioneering prose explorations of ancient stories include the international bestseller Iron John. His latest collection of poems, Talking into the Ear of a Donkey, was released in 2011.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-05-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:703 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:308
Förlag:University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:9780816677702

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Thomas R. Smith is the author of five books of poems, most recently The Foot of the Rainbow (2010). He edited the festschrift Walking Swiftly: Writing and Images on the Occasion of Robert Bly’s 65th Birthday (1992). He teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. James P. Lenfestey, a former editorial writer for the Minneapolis–St. Paul Star Tribune, is the author of a collection of personal essays and four collections of poems. He convened the conference Robert Bly in This World.

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"I had never even heard Rumi's name before attending Robert Bly's Great Mother Conference in 1976. . . . As he handed me my copy, he said, 'These poems need to be released from their cages.'"—Coleman Barks "Robert Bly's antiwar poetry . . . engages in mental combat so as to depress the corporeal. I deeply believe that there are men and women my age who are alive today because we had people like Robert doing that work in the sixties."—Lewis Hyde "We do what we must to keep the earth alive and our own species awake to its own full nature, for our own rescue and joy, and for the rescue and joy of those who will follow. This is the vow Robert Bly has always embodied, living as he has in sentinel alertness."—Jane Hirshfield

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPreface - James P. LenfesteyIntroduction - Thomas R. SmithLessons from Robert Bly’s Barn - Lewis HydeShadows on the Prairie: Where the Gift Gathers - Patricia KirkpatrickBirth of a Revolution: The Fifties - William DuffyUnder the Sign of Odin: Robert Bly’s Wild Little Magazine - Mark GustafsonBly and Wright: A Passionate Poem - Anne WrightAntonio Machado’s Eyeglasses: The Influence of Robert Bly’s Translations on American Poetry - Ray GonzalezSo Much Happens When No One Is Watching - Daniel DeardorffSmall Engine Repair: Thirty-five Years of the Annual Conference on the Great Mother and the New Father, Organized by Robert Bly - John RosenwaldNotes and Pieces on Speaking Poems and Stories, Learning by Heart - Gioia TimpanelliA Little Book Project with Robert Bly - William BoothPraising the Soul in Women and Men: Robert Bly and the Men’s Movement - Thomas R. SmithRobert Bly: Still Taking on the Wor(l)d - Victoria Frenkel HarrisRobert Bly’s Poetry: The Later Years - Howard NelsonRobert Bly in the Shadow of Hafiz - Leonard LewisohnReleasing Birds to the Air (and two poems) - Coleman BarksAppendix IAppendix 2Appendix 3Contributor Notes