Reading: Robert Bly
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
20-3-1979 8:00 PM
End Date
20-3-1979 9:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 20, 1979, as part of the 10th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Epitomes, Bombast & Climaxes,” Robert Bly lectures on poetry, narcissism, and politics, at times playing a lap dulcimer. Bly recites “The Clay Jug” by Kabir twice, tells a story about Mirabai, recites “Why Mira Can't go back to her old house,” reads “Words Rising,” “Feeling at Home in the Body,” and “Written in the Rockes Near Mule Hollow, Utah,” recites “Trees Undo Themselves Inside a Circle of Fog,” reads “A Hollow Tree” twice, “Lobsters Waiting to be Eaten in the Restaurant Window,” “I am Driving Toward the Lac qui Parle River” twice, recites “Looking at a Dead Seal,” reads “Digging Worms,” recites “It Begins With Orion” twice, “Love Poem” “Taking the Hands Of Someone You Love,” “I Want What is Inside You” twice, “Coming in For Supper,” “For My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old,” and “Snowbanks North of the House,” and reads “Passing an Orchard by Train.” Bly then recites “Counting Small Boned Bodies” and “The Busy Man's Speech” while wearing masks and recites Rilke's “I Live My Life in Growing Orbits” and Yeats's “Mad as the Mist and Snow.”
Introduced by Dr. Robert Lewis, Department of English.
Reading: Robert Bly
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 20, 1979, as part of the 10th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Epitomes, Bombast & Climaxes,” Robert Bly lectures on poetry, narcissism, and politics, at times playing a lap dulcimer. Bly recites “The Clay Jug” by Kabir twice, tells a story about Mirabai, recites “Why Mira Can't go back to her old house,” reads “Words Rising,” “Feeling at Home in the Body,” and “Written in the Rockes Near Mule Hollow, Utah,” recites “Trees Undo Themselves Inside a Circle of Fog,” reads “A Hollow Tree” twice, “Lobsters Waiting to be Eaten in the Restaurant Window,” “I am Driving Toward the Lac qui Parle River” twice, recites “Looking at a Dead Seal,” reads “Digging Worms,” recites “It Begins With Orion” twice, “Love Poem” “Taking the Hands Of Someone You Love,” “I Want What is Inside You” twice, “Coming in For Supper,” “For My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old,” and “Snowbanks North of the House,” and reads “Passing an Orchard by Train.” Bly then recites “Counting Small Boned Bodies” and “The Busy Man's Speech” while wearing masks and recites Rilke's “I Live My Life in Growing Orbits” and Yeats's “Mad as the Mist and Snow.”
Introduced by Dr. Robert Lewis, Department of English.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1979/day2/1
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