Jerome Rothenberg & Clayton Eshleman, George Quasha & Charles Stein, P. Adams Sitney & Sharon Mesmer, John Yau & Jennifer Moxley, Jed Rasula & Mary Caponegro, among many others.

Robert Kelly’s own voice can also be heard in a series of “Threads” (in which various interview excerpts directly, or indirectly, speak to the sections or “books” they precede or follow) that link both in form & content back to the previous volume, and in three landmark interviews with Kelly in full, that also mark three different moments in time: 1963, 1974, & 2007. Both volumes together thus offer the reader not only a “collected” & “critical” essays, but also a “Selected Interviews.”

It may seem surprising — & in fact it is — that an oeuvre of such distinction, complexity, and depth has had to wait until the poet’s 84 year to be fêted with a volume of essays. But here it is: A City Full of Voices, the first substantive multi-voiced gathering of writings about one of the absolutely opulent, lavish, generous & bountiful life-works by one of the great contemporary American poets.

Title Info

A City Full of Voices
Edited by Pierre Joris with Peter Cockelbergh  & Joel Newberger

ISBN: 978-1-940625-34-8

USD $40.00

Publication date: 1 May 2020

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