Bly's poetry read aloud

Here is a link to some mp3s where you can hear Robert Bly reading poetry at a conference. These recordings are really nice. You can listen to the conference a piece at a time or pick and choose just the poems you wish to hear. But I also enjoy Bly's commentary on the poetics of a particular poem.

I am a major audiobook devotee. The spoken word offers something the written word does not. I liked little poetry until I started to purchase poetry on tape. Listening to Bly read will likely mean that by tomorrow you will have as some favorites poems written by men whose names yesterday would have sounded like the favorites of people in other countries who vote the wrong way.

If you enjoy this kind of discussion, you should go out and find a recording by Robert Bly and James Hillman called Men and the Wild Child.