Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy

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Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy

Q&A NYT writer Jeff Gordinier and poets

2015. 81 m. Haydn Reiss. Zinc Films. USA. English. Rated NR.

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Poet Robert Bly stands out among the revolutionary generation of American artists who burst forth in the 1950s. Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy charts his singular path from Minnesota farmer’s son to antiwar activist to author of Iron John, the men’s movement bible that sent a million men drumming in the woods. Today, the bespectacled, white-haired Bly is every inch the politically and spiritually engaged mystic, seeking the heart of every moment as well as the spiritual bedrock beneath our daily lives. One of the first to translate Rumi and other ecstatic Sufi poets, he lives a life that embodies the quest for personal honesty and shared truth. With Joseph Campbell, Jane Hirshfield, Tracy K. Smith, Donald Hall, Mark Rylance, Gary Snyder, and many others.

This film is part of the The Meditative Life 2016: Consciousness, Spirituality…and the Kitchen Sink series.