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Robert Blyaccompanied by Marcus Wise on tabla and Bruce Hamm on sarod
• Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 7:30 pm
• Tickets $10.
As the editor of the magazine The Sixties (begun as The Fifties), Bly introduced many
European and South American poets to an American audience. He is also the editor of numerous
collections including
The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures (Ecco Press, 1995);
Leaping Poetry (1975); The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men (1992); News of
the Universe (1980); and A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War (1967). Among his many
books of translations are Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems (Beacon Press, 1997);
Machado’s Times Alone: Selected Poems (1983); The Kabir Book (1977); Friends, You Drank
Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets—Martinson, Ekelöf, and Tranströmer (1975); and
Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems (1971). He is also the author of a number of
nonfiction books, including The Maiden King (Henry Holt, 1998) with Marion Woodman; The
Sibling Society (Addison-Wesley, 1996); The Spirit Boy and the Insatiable Soul (1994);
Iron John: A Book about Men (1990); and Talking All Morning: Collected Conversations and
Interviews (1980). His honors include Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment
for the Arts fellowships. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, not far from two sons and four grandchildren.
See the page on Robert Bly on the Academy of American Poets website.
Read about Turkish Pears in August on the Eastern
Washington University Press website.
Read the transcript or watch the video of Bill
Moyers' interview with Robert Bly on Bill Moyers Journal from August 31,2007. This event is supported, in part, by a grant from the Cultural
Council of Santa Cruz County. This event is supported by a grant
from Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from
the James Irvine Foundation.
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As a poet, editor, and translator, Robert Bly has had a profound
impact on the shape of American poetry. He is the
author of more than thirty books of poetry, the most recent being Turkish Pears in August (Eastern
Washington Univ. Press, 2007) with five elegant wood engravings by artist Gaylord Shanilec,
previously available only in a numbered letterpress edition. 2008 will see the release of
The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez translated with Leonard Lewisohn.
Other books include My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of
Joy (HarperCollins, 2005); The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations (HarperCollins, 2004);
The Night Abraham Called to the Stars (HarperCollins, 2001);
Snowbanks North of the House (1999); What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems (1992);
Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (1987); Mirabai Versions (1984); This Body is Made of Camphor and
Gopherwood (1977); and The Light Around the Body (1967), which won the National Book Award.
