What the Shadow Knows Author:Robert Bly Recorded Live - One Cassette Bly says that as children, we tried to figure out what everyone else wanted and abandoned our selves. In doing that, the self was deeply betrayed. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to regain our shadow. Note: The inherent difficulties of live recordings and the age of some of the recordings can cause ... more »variations in the sound quality. ROBERT BLY: A 20th century minstrel, Bly has written poetry all his life and has received a National Book Award for his poems. Goethe said, "The most beautiful instrument in the whole world is the human voice." Bly reminds us the human voice has power, and in a poetry reading the voice is a tangible thing that vibrates and radiates into the body of the listener.« less