{"id":15525,"date":"2017-09-25T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=15525"},"modified":"2017-09-25T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:46:09","slug":"happy-birthday-robert-kelly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-robert-kelly-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Robert Kelly!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So yesterday afternoon with Robert Kelly’s 82nd birthday in the back of my mind I happened by chance \u2014 was looking for something completely different \u2014 to come across the picture below: Robert reading to me from a now unidentifiable ms. in Paris (only one of two occasions on which we met outside the US) in about 85\/86 in my “red all over” Paris apartment. An hour later again looking for something else, up popped a poem of RK’s that had been important for me many years ago\u00a0(& that celebrates Margaret Randall & her magazine El Corno Emplumado ).\u00a0<\/em>The poem makes a politically urgent statement totally valid today, several decades later: “All forms of totalitarian slavery commence with the proposition: get out of your body. Whether that is ecstasy, religious abstraction, psychotic fugue, social consciousness, group-loyalty, whether the threat is Marxist or Theocratic or Fascist, the threat is the same. Men, alienated from their bodies, wandering howling through through the abstract spaces of a pretended race….” So, here are both, pix & poem, to celebrate Robert:<\/p>\n

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