Los Angeles Times Book Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 1 (1980) Winner
Robert Kelly
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Robert Kelly
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1935-09-24 （Brooklyn, New York, U.S.）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Islam
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Translator, Professor
- Active Years
- 1955-
- Affiliations
- Bard College, Wagner College, California Institute of Technology
- Influenced By
- Coleridge, Baudelaire, Pound, Apollinaire, Virgil, Aeschylus, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dryden, Lorca, Rilke, Hölderlin, Stevens, Stein, Duncan, Olson, Williams, Blackburn
- Influenced
- Hungryalist poets (Hungry Generation), Malay Roy Choudhury (correspondent), Later experimental poets and translators
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City College of the City University of New York | — | — | Bachelor's | 1951-1955 | United States |
| Columbia University | — | — | — | 1955-1958 | United States |
| University at Buffalo | — | — | — | — | United States |
City College of the City University of New York
Degree:
Bachelor's
Period:
1951-1955
Year of Graduation:
1955
Country:
United States
Columbia University
Period:
1955-1958
Country:
United States
Details of attendance unclear
University at Buffalo
Country:
United States
Associated as faculty; records mix attendance and teaching
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Award | Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News | — | Los Angeles Times | 受賞 |
| 1991 | American Book Award | In Time | — | Before Columbus Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2016 | Dutchess County Poet Laureate | — | — | Dutchess County | 任命（2016–2017） |
Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Award
1980
Work:
Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News
Organization:
Los Angeles Times
Result:
受賞
American Book Award
1991
Work:
In Time
Organization:
Before Columbus Foundation
Result:
受賞
Dutchess County Poet Laureate
2016
Organization:
Dutchess County
Result:
任命（2016–2017）
Awards & Nominations
American Book Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 2 (1981) Winner
Works
Major Works
Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993
1995 PoetryA selected poems volume collecting work from 1960 to 1993, showing Kelly's experimental and lyrical trajectory.
timelanguageinner landscapes
In Time
1971 PoetryA collection on time and being; recipient of the American Book Award in 1991.
timeexistencetransformation
Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News
1979 PoetryA collection with political and allegorical elements; awarded by the Los Angeles Times.
politicsallegoryvoice and transmission
A Transparent Tree
1985 Short fiction / ProseA collection of short fictions combining the poet's voice with experimental prose.
narrativememoryexperimentation
Oedipus After Colonus
2014 Play / DramaA play taking Oedipus at Colonus as its starting point; first performed in 2010 at the HERE Arts Center.
classical inheritancefatereinterpretation
Adaptations
- [Theatre] Oedipus After Colonus (premiere) / Crichton Atkinson (2010)
Bibliography
- Armed Descent (1961)
- Her Body Against Time (1963)
- Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 (1995)
- A Transparent Tree (1985)
- Kill the Messenger (1979)
- In Time (1971)
- The Scorpions (1967, novel)
- Numerous poetry and prose books (since 1960s)
Adaptations
- Stage production of Oedipus After Colonus (2010)
Translations of Works
- Su cuerpo contra el tiempo (Spanish translation of Her Body Against Time, 1963)
- Il Maestro di Silenzio (Italian translation, 1993)
- Doors / Türen (German translation, 2020)
- Postcards from the Underworld (Georgian translation, 2019)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Associated with the Deep Image movementExperimental, fragmentary narrationLyrical and philosophical
- Recurring Motifs
- timemyth and the classicalexploration of words/languagesilence and voice
Legacy
Robert Kelly is an important figure in American experimental and contemporary poetry, long active as a teacher at Bard College and author of numerous poetry and prose volumes. Through translations and international exchanges he has influenced later generations of poets.
Archives
- Archives in Kolkata (holds correspondence with Malay Roy Choudhury and others)
- Bard College-related archives / personal papers
Quotes
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I want to say the names of the great teachers from whom I learned what I could, and still am learning. Coleridge. Baudelaire. Pound. Apollinaire. Virgil. Aeschylus. Dante. Chaucer. Shakespeare. Dryden. Lorca. Rilke. Hölderlin. Stevens. Stein. Duncan. Olson. Williams. Blackburn. I mention only the dead, the dead are always different, and always changing. I mention them more or less in the order of when they came along in my life to teach me.
Source: Wikipedia (quoted) / cited interviews
Trivia
- Named the first Dutchess County Poet Laureate for 2016–2017.
- Has published more than fifty books of poetry and prose.
- Married to translator Charlotte Mandell; they have collaborated on several projects.