Robert Bly letters and related material, 1961-1972.

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Robert Bly letters and related material, 1961-1972.

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The collection consists of eleven items: six letters and one postal card to Stephen Berg, all 1966, some on The Sixties Press letterhead, all concerned with publishing Bly's poetry; letter to Stanley Weintraub, 14 Feb. 1972, agreeing in principle to visit Penn State and citing his commitments; also, pamphlet, A Broadsheet against the New York Times Book Review, published by The Sixties Press, 1961, criticizing the quality of the reviews, describing the contributors as "second-rate academics," and including a 1958 interview Bly did with the head of the New York Times Book Review, Francis Brown; and two typescript essays about poetry, each with marginal corrections, undated but circa 1969, Forgetting About Open Form, and Looking for Dragon Smoke (submitted for inclusion in the Naked Poetry Anthology) concerning the question of poetic form.

11 items.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Berg, Stephen.

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Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-....

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Stanley Weintraub was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 17, 1929. He earned a bachelor's degree in education at the West Chester State Teacher's College in 1949. He received his master's degree from Temple University "in absentia" because he was called to duty in the conflict in Korea two months prior to graduation. He spent two years in the Eighth Army where, as a first lieutenant, for his wartime service, he was awarded the Bronze Star and the Korean Ribbon with five battle stars. Af...

Brown, Francis, 1903-1995

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Bly, Robert W.

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American poet. From the description of The man in the black coat turns, 1981 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823162 Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement. John Gill published a small literary journal in the 1960s entitled New American and Canadian Poetry. He also authored books of poetry, as well as published books of poetry of others under the name of New Books be...