Robert Bly - November 30, 1966

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Robert Bly

In this reading, Robert Bly treats the audience to translations of Issa, Neruda, and Kabir more than five years before they began to be collected in his books. He also reads uncollected poems and poems from his book The Light Around the Body, which was published the year following this reading.

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Introduction
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by Richard Shelton

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"September Night with an Old Horse"
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Bly, Robert. Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 1962.

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"At the Funeral of Great-Aunt Mary"
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Bly, Robert. Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 1962.

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Translations of Issa's Haikus
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Poems by Kobayashi Issa.

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Issa, Kobayashi. Ten Poems. Translated by Robert Bly. 1972.

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"White Ducks"
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Bly, Robert. Ducks. Menonmonie, WI: Ox Head Press, 1966.

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"Unanswered Letters"
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Uncollected.

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"Small Town"
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Uncollected.

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"Love Poem"
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Bly, Robert. Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 1962.

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"Taking the Hand"
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Uncollected.

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"Watering the Horse"
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Bly, Robert. Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 1962.

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"The Loon"
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Bly, Robert. The Loon. Marshall, MN: Ox Head Press, 1977.

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"Come with Me"
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Bly, Robert. The Light Around the Body. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

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"The Busy Man Speaks"
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Bly, Robert. The Light Around the Body. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

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"Those Being Eaten by America"
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Bly, Robert. The Light Around the Body. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

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"As the Asian War Begins"
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Bly, Robert. The Light Around the Body. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

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"Johnson's Cabinet Watched by Ants"
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Bly, Robert. The Light Around the Body. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

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"Asian Peace Offers Rejected without Publication"
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Bly, Robert. The Light Around the Body. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

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"Counting Small-Boned Bodies"
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Bly, Robert. The Light Around the Body. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

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"Driving through Minnesota during the Hanoi Bombings"
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Bly, Robert. The Light Around the Body. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

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Translation of "I don't know what sort of God we've been talking about..." (2)
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Poem by Kabir, translated by Robert Bly.

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Bly, Robert. The Kabir Book. Boston: Beacon Press, 1977.

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Translation of "Student, do the simple purification..." (4)
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Poem by Kabir, translated by Robert Bly.

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Bly, Robert. The Kabir Book. Boston: Beacon Press, 1977.

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Translation of "Ode to My Socks"
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Poem by Pablo Neruda, translated by Robert Bly.

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Bly, Robert. Neruda and Vallejo. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.

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Robert Bly
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Robert Bly
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