talks about going to auschwitz and being brought up short and feeling the dark cloud suspend and dark spirits rise in his soul. he said he couldn't live in a world that knew that was a book involved, without also knows in the world is a bay bay bay bay n and a bach. he said storytelling, there's no better than garrison. [applause] >> barry lopez said storytelling is our only protection against forgetting the spiritual interior of our lives. and that's why stories are far more powerful than any other form of articulation. and so when i am feeling myself slipping, i listen to prairie home companion, or i pick up my book -- [laughter] >> i do something and i'll close with, garrison, robert bly is here today. one of my favorite minnesotaens. one the beat voices of our time. i've done many conversations over the years with robert, not because i wanted to be hostile to him or challenge him, but because i wanted him to read poems to me. here's one he read some years ago. he wrote it soon after 9/11 when all of the talk was bubbling up about invading iraq. he wrote this call which was judith'