Euan Kerr interviews Minnesota poet Robert Bly about his collection "Talking into the Ear of a Donkey." Bly reads from book. Segment also includes commentary about Bly from fellow poets Jim Lenfestey and Garrison Keillor, and wife Ruth.
Minnesota's Poet Laureate Robert Bly has enjoyed a contentious career. A winner of the National Book Award for poetry, he's internationally known. He's famed for his English translations of major poets from around the world. He's also infamous to some for his book "Iron John," published in 1990, which became the basis for a men's movement of sorts.