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page three/the journal/april 8,1975 Robert Bly to hold poetry reading April 10 In Northwest Review Kenneth Rexroth recently said of Robert Bly's work: "For a good many years now in his magazine The Seventies (before that Sixties), and its accompanying book publishing, Bly has been struggling manfully to return American poetry to the mainstream of international literature from which it was diverted into the sultry provincial bayous of the Pillowcase Headdress School a generation ago. He started out completely surrounded by enemies....! thought he didn't have a Chinaman's chance. The youth of American were never going to graduate from Creative Poetry 107/8 or read the lives of TrakI and Otero. Now the years have passed away and with them the reactionary generation. Robert Bly is today one of the leaders of a poetic revival which has returned American literature to the world community. His poems are active, and they are active on broad levels of experience. If you compare the best of them with the work of the outstanding younger members of the Old Establishment which Bly and his associates have overthrown, the most noticeable thing is that there's more to them. He does more, knows more, thinks more, feels more. A wide grasp of experience, an octave or more in each hand, is not just a sign of energy, it is a cause of responsibility. That is what gives the poems their great moral impact." Robert Bly, a nationally reknown poet, will be reading on campus Thursday April 10 in the Rowe Recital Hal! at 8;00 p.m. There vyill also be an informal session with Mr. Bly for students, faculty and all interested in the Northwest Lounge of the Cone University Center at 2:30 p.m. on April 10. Bly s first book of poems, which organized the first series of poetry readings against that war and published a collection of texts, called A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam Silence In the Snowy Fields, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1962. They were primarily meditative poems. His second book. The Light Around the Body, published by Harper & Row, won the National Book Award for poetry in 1968. He was one of the first American writers who publicly attacked the government's involvement in Vietnam. In 1966, Robert Bly and David Ray founded "American Writers Against The Vietnam War," War, The Poetry Committee at the State University at Buffalo recently said of Robert Bly: ''He refused not only a connection with the academic purse, but with the academic syllabus, especially the Poetry Syllabus. He soon fought fiercely against what James Wright has called the Poetry of Calcium. 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Master Charge - BankAnierieard $124.50 4736 SOUTH BLVD. 1415 SO. TRYON ST. 5326 KAS r INDKIM'NDKNCK BI.VI).: WORLD ELECTRONICS Crunk. And if his battle for the recognition of the great South American poets of this century seems now won, we must not forget that the winning of it is largely his doing. He has been an extravagant praiser and a harsh attacker of poetic talent at home. Indeed his activity has a critic has always implied at least two further refusals: the refusal to play the game of literary politics, and the refusal to freeze poets in their reputations. But if Bly does not play literary politics, he is certainly engaged vitally in the larger political scene. He is a deeply committed writer and has done as much as any to make the poet felt in px)litics, or to make politics a felt part of poetry....When finally last spring, Bly's reputation caught up with him, and he was awarded the National Book Award, he took that opportunity to tonguelash Amcan publishers present for their refusal to take stands, and he donated his Book Award check to the Resistance." New Media Board ushered in quietly Student Media Board rescinded a previous motion of March 4, 1975 by deciding to allow the walls to remain standing in the basement of the Cone University Center. A motion was also made to allow Vern Parrish and Robert Van Gill, Editor-elect of Rogues & Rascals, to devise a plan to make better use of the area in the Media area. The meeting began with the members of the 1974-75 Media Board seated. They remained seated through the Media reports. Old Business and the Chairman's report. Dick Wyzanski, giving the WVFN report, said that the tri-managers took office as of April 1st, but by michael eyans that he was now in favor of the elections being held over due to the large amount of public controversy which has occurred over the first election for WVFN station manager. In the Chairman's report Steve Morris told the Board of the present financial standing of the Board, but an exact figure was not given. The last order of Business covered by the old Board was the selection of the recipient of the Student Media Award. Nominations "were taken from each of the Board members and Steve Morris won the award by receiving three votes. Receiving one vote each were Elisabeth (cont. on page six) AM£RICA^ FAVOmre PIZZA Giant Pizza Sharea 5655 North Tryon 6607 South Boulevard today...
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