The Time of Voice: Poems 1994-1996
A collection of ninety poems that follows the movement of voice, consciousness, and language. It can be read as a representative late book by Robert Kelly, with sound and rhythm pushed to the front rather than abstraction alone.
Work Information
Language becomes a place where speech hears itself.
Robert Kelly’s collection makes the act of speaking itself the subject while pushing language toward perception, music, and thought. Gathered into ninety poems, it is a dense book of intense inward motion.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Published
- 1998-11-01
- Pages
- 160 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.94 x 1.45 x 22.63 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781574230796
- ISBN-10
- 1574230794
- Price
- 43025 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Ninety poems by Robert Kelly. The poet writes: “Writing is the generosity of writing down whatever comes into your mind, in sequence, as true as you can, The diligence of working with that, in all the ways you can, to make it speak, to make it say more than you know. . . The patience to know that what the writing is saying is more important, always, than what you want to say. . . The moral discipline not to use the words to sell yourself or your ideas. The concentration to stay with the work under hand, stay inside it, thinking only with it and not beside it, letting all thinking and feeling come to focus in it, as it. The wisdom to know when you’re done. When it’s done.”
Related Literary Awards
- American Book Awards Edition 2 (1981) ・Winner