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“What a loving tribute to Robert. Doesn’t every poet long to be heard? Though some like Wallace Stevens preferred to be read. Stevens was more introverted and a student symbolists Stéphane Mallarmé..I certainly prefer to hear Robert read his own poems aloud, for sure... There is an added significance for me, since I am a poet and was told that words, literature even symbolic thinking was out of bounds for someone of my limited intelligence. Poetry and literature were only the realm of English majors. Thank goodness for Charles Bukowski and Simic ! I did have one English teacher at Downers Grove North High School in 1974 ( He had long hair and wore a colorful vest) that taught the transcendentalist and had us read George Orwell and listen to Johnny Winters. He didn’t give a damned if we read fast or slow or memorized. He was interested in what we thought and felt in our heart. In some ways Bly spoke to me, in other ways He was a little too untouchable. I had a significant learning difference ( dyslexia ) so in a sense, I was one of the developmentally disabled children that Bly mentioned in his dream and wrote about in his famous poem. But yes I appreciated Robert’s pace, cadence and mostly raw talent. You’re fortunate you got to know him, a bit. This is certainly the greatest gift of all, friendship. I read my poems in analysis for the first time in 1995. This became an important practice, like dreams. This gave me the confidence to read at Penny lane and a few larger gatherings. It is so healing to be heard. And can be electrifying. Like whitewater kayaking a big Western River. I wouldn’t place Bly in the pantheon of Seamus Heaney, Czesław Milosz, Robert Graves or even Richard’s relative Siegfried Sassoon. But Robert definitely touched me. Thank you for your touching tribute Russell. I would love to read you and Murray one my poems one day. And hear one of yours.”
Jeff from boulder via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/09/21
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