Robert Bly 12-01-1971 Part 1
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Authors
Bly, Robert 19711201_Part1
Issue Date
1970-03-17
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Video
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en_US
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Robert Bly reads six of his poems to a small gathering. The poems read were from "A Light Around the Body", "The Morning Glory", and some standalone poems published prior to the time of filming. Below is the reading order of the poems Bly read, along with their time stamp.
0:28 Romans Angry About The Inner World - From "Light Around the Body"
2:21 Looking Into A Tide Pool - From "The Morning Glory"
3:35 Poem in Three Parts - By Robert Bly
5:40 Old Boards - By Robert Bly
6:44 Watering the Horse - By Robert Bly
7:06 When the Dumb Speak - From "Light Around the Body"
Leading the discussion are Professors Anthony Piccione and A. Poulin Jr. of the SUNY Brockport English Department. The English Department students open the discussion with Bly. The first topic discussed is changing persona in Bly's work and its connection to the mother and teeth mother, in reference to Bly's poem "The Teeth Mother Naked At Last". Bly discusses, at length, his understanding of an American cultural shift from the culture of his generation to the culture of the next generation and the forces driving those changes. He describes and warns of the dangers that can be encountered during that cultural movement, which included primarily heavy drug use and the atrocities of war. Bly is invited to speak about awareness and spiritual awakening and what he understands is a spiritual shift in the United States. This leads to Bly sharing his thoughts on the Triune Brain hypothesis and research which was groundbreaking at the time of filming.
To be continued in Part II: https://hdl.handle.net/1951/84600
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SUNY Brockport