Talking all morning / Robert Bly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bly, Robert.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Poets on poetry

Poets on poetry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bly, Robert--Interviews.

Bly, Robert.

Poetry.

Interviews.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 308 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1980]

Contents:

I. Inwardness And Biology: Two Long Interviews

The Evolutionary Part of the Mind: An Interview with Jay Bail and Geoffrey Cook 3

Going Out on the Plain in the Moonlight: An Interview with Cynthia Lofsness and Kathy Otto, with Fred Manfred 47

II. On The War And Political Poems

On Government Support for the Arts: An Interview with N. G. Schuessler 73

An Argument about "Universal" versus "Political" Art: An Interview with Gregory Fitz Gerald and William Heyen 78

On Urging Others to Refuse the Draft: An Interview 83

On the Lack of Thinking in the Left: An Interview with John Maillet and Elliot Rockler 90

Leaping Up into Political Poetry: An Essay 95

Acceptance of the National Book Award for Poetry 106

Three Poems 109

III. Talk About Writing Poetry

On Writing Prose Poems: An Interview with Rochelle Ratner 115

On "Losing the Road": An Interview with Peter Martin 120

Two Halves of Life: An Interview with Phil Yannella 127

Poetry Is a Dream That Is Shared with Others: An Interview with Paul Feroe, Neil Klotz, and Don Lee 130

On Unfinished Poets: An Interview with Scott Chisholm 151

The First Ten Issues of Kayak: An Essay 159

Three Poems 166

IV. An Argument About The Meaning Of The Word "Craft"

Craft Interview: With Mary Jane Fortunato and Cornelia P. Draves, and with Paul Zweig and Saul Galin 171

V. Talk About The "Great Mother"

The Masculine versus the Feminine in Poetry: An Interview with William Heyen and Gregory Fitz Gerald 207

About the Conference on the Mother: An Interview with Bill Siemering 213

On Split-Brain Experiments and the Mother: An Interview with Kevin Powers 224

Three Poems 235

VI. Recent Interviews

The Ascending Energy Arc: Answers to Students' Questions, Suffolk County Community College 241

Infantilism and Adult Swiftness: An Interview with Ekbert Faas 250

Knots of Wild Energy: An Interview with Wayne Dodd 284.

ISBN:

0472157604

OCLC:

6016539