Lexington Community Education presents: An Evening with Robert Bly with guests David Whetstone & Fran Quinn

Robert Bly has changed the American literary landscape in numerous ways. He has published over a dozen highly-regarded volumes of poetry, including My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy; The Night Abraham Called to the Stars; Morning Poems; Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems; and The Light Around the Body, for which he won the National Book Award in 1968. His poems in My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy and The Night Abraham Called to the Stars, are written in his own adaptation of the Middle Eastern ghazal form in three-line stanzas. Bly has also established himself as one of the great translators of international poetry into English, with pioneering translations of Pablo Neruda, Antonio Machado, Rainer Maria Rilke, Tomas Tranströmer, and Hafez, among many others. The best work of his long and varied translation career appeared recently in The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations. In 2008 his translations of Hafez were published in a volume Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door. Bly’s bestselling book-length essay, Iron John: A Book About Men, sparked the men’s movement of the early 1990s and defined a whole generation’s view of masculinity. His other influential books of social and psychological commentary include The Sibling Society, and The Maiden King, the latter co-authored with Marion Woodman. His latest book Talking into the Ear of a Donkey is considered to be one of his “richest and most varied” collections to date. We are honored to welcome Robert Bly back to Lexington along with musician David Whetstone and poet/ long time Bly collaborator and friend Fran Quinn. 

This event, presented by Lexington Community Education, will be held on Thursday, October 6th from 7:00-8:30pm at the Follen Church, 755 Massachusetts Avenue.  Cost:  $15.00.  Pre-registration strongly recommended.