Description
A new collection of poems focused on the poem as structure, poem as house, by award winning poet, Robert Kelly.
This book reflects a year or so of Robert Kelly’s “concentration on the poem as structure, poem as house. Stanza is the key; it means ‘room’ in Italian, each stanza different in shape and function, like the rooms in a house-every room in the house is, must be, different: The kitchen is not the bedroom. So, stanzas serve varied functions, welcome differing guests of meaning and music.” — Robert Kelly
Poetry.
Author Bio
Robert Kelly is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature and Co-Director of the Program in Written Arts at Bard College. He has also taught at Wagner College, University of Buffalo and Tufts University. He has been Poet In Residence at Yale, California Institute of Technology, University of Kansas, Dickinson College and University of Southern California. He is a Founding Member of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. He has written more than 50 books of poetry and prose, many published by Black Sparrow Press. He received the Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Award in 1980 for Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News, and the American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, in 1991 for In Time. He serves on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions, as well as Poetry International.
Author City: Annandale on Hudson, NY USA