Their Arms Outstretched into the Night

A night with two ecstatics
Robert Bly and Martín Prechtel

This will be a delightful evening of poetry and story with two well known and gifted authors whose work has revealed the vitality hidden in living languages. Journey along with them into the world of imagination and beauty as stories unfold with poetic rhythms.

Martín Prechtel will read from his newly released book Stealing Benefacios's Roses.

There will be a book signing later in the evening.

Special guests: The Brothers Frantzich !!

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Sundin Hall, Hamline University

8:00 PM, tickets: $15 /$10 for students
Students with Hamline ID: $8
tickets go on sale at 7:30 pm at the door
sorry, no advance sales

Hamline University
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104-1284

map and directions | mapquest | Sundin Hall

Robert Bly, internationally recognized and award-winning author and poet, helped found the modern men's movement. He has taught men how to create a home for what is best in them. He inspires both men and women to lead a life of intensity and beauty that brings them together into community.

Interview in the Rake Magazine January 2004

The Wind Isn't Depressed:
Robert Bly Talks With Michael Ventura About Art, Madness, And The Joy Of Loss in the Sun Magazine
May 2004- Robert Bly and Michael Ventura

download interview with Robert Bly and Michael Ventura in the Sun Magazine 2004

Books by Robert Bly: Iron John;
The Insanity of Empire: Poems Against the Iraq War.;
My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy;
The Winged Energy of Delight;
The Urge to Travel Long Distances
The Night Abraham Called To The Stars;
Morning Poems;
Eating the Honey of Words

The Urge to Travel Long Distances by Robert By
- 36 poems

Martín Prechtel
A master of eloquence and innovative language, Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. His life, the well known subject of his previous books Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, took him from his native New Mexico upbringing, as a half-blood Native American, from a Pueblo Indian reservation to the village of Santiago Atitlan where he eventually served the Tzutujil Mayan population as a full village member becoming a principal in the body of village leaders, responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories that took place in the rituals of adult rights of passage.

Martín once again resides in his native New Mexico. Teaching internationally through story, music, ritual and writing, Martín helps people in many lands to retain their diversity while remembering their own sense of place in the daily sacred through the search for the Indigenous Soul. Broadly cherished, Martín's third book, The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time, has become a runaway, underground hit. Martín’s fourth book, Stealing Benefacio's Roses was recently released in paperback.