Robert Bly 3-17-1970
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1970-03-17
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Bly, Robert 19700317
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SUNY Brockport
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Robert Bly is interviewed by William Heyen from the SUNY Brockport English Department and the Director of the Writer's Forum, Gregory Fitzgerald. Bly reads "Counting Small-Boned Bodies" from "The Light Around the Body" before the interview begins. Fitzgerald invites Bly to speak about what he thinks and feels about the Vietnam War and how it drove this and other poems he has written. Bly speaks about differences between wars and the American cultural attitude toward other races and cultures. He recounts his experience from the Second World War and compares that experience with what he was seeing with the events of the Vietnam War. The conversation turns to Bly's exploration of his understanding of psychic energy, American cultural shifts, and the forces that drive them. He speaks in detail about how these factors, and other poets have influenced his education and his writing up to the time of filming. Fitzgerald invites Bly to demonstrate the influences they had discussed with another reading. Bly read "The Busy Man Speaks" and continued the exploration of the themes in his work. At the end of the interview, the discussion is closed with mention of Bly's magazine and the process he uses to produce and publish it for public consumption.
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