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Robert Kelly is one of the major and most prolific American poets of our time. Between 1961 when his first collection,\u00a0Armed Descent<\/em>, was published by Hawk\u2019s Well Press, and\u00a0Seaspel,<\/em>\u00a0brought out in 2019 by Lunar Chandelier Collective, Kelly has published some 66+ books of poetry as well as 14 volumes of prose, including novels, short stories, & essays.\u00a0A City Full of Voices<\/em>\u00a0is the companion volume to the 2014\u00a0A Voice Full of Cities<\/em>,\u00a0the Collected Essays of Robert Kelly<\/em>, also published by Contra Mundum Press.This book gathers a wide range of commentaries \u2014 from single-phrase response to full-blown essay, personal meditation & various forms of book reviews \u2014 on Kelly\u2019s monumental oeuvre. It covers early reception by a previous generation of poets \u2014 such as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley \u2014 welcoming Kelly among their company, mid-career assessments via an array of compa\u00f1eros & compa\u00f1eras for whom Kelly\u2019s work has been sustenance and inspiration over many decades, and goes all the way to critical investigations by those younger readers & students of the work coming to Robert Kelly\u2019s poetry today. Eminent voices among the contributors include Guy Davenport & Stan Brakhage, Paul Blackburn & Diane Wakoski,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Jerome Rothenberg & Clayton Eshleman, George Quasha & Charles Stein, P. Adams Sitney & Sharon Mesmer, John Yau & Jennifer Moxley, Jed Rasula & Mary Caponegro, among many others.<\/p>\n Robert Kelly\u2019s own voice can also be heard in a series of \u201cThreads\u201d (in which various interview excerpts directly, or indirectly, speak to the sections or \u201cbooks\u201d 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 \u201ccollected\u201d & \u201ccritical\u201d essays, but also a \u201cSelected Interviews<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n It may seem surprising \u2014 & in fact it is \u2014 that an oeuvre of such distinction, complexity, and depth has had to wait until the poet\u2019s 84 year to be f\u00eated with a volume of essays. But here it is:\u00a0A City Full of Voices,\u00a0<\/em>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A City Full of Voices<\/em><\/strong> ISBN: 978-1-940625-34-8<\/p>\n USD $40.00<\/p>\n Publication date: 1 May 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n For a review, desk copy, or interview request, write to: Essays on the Work of Robert Kelly Robert Kelly is one of the major and most prolific American poets of our time. Between 1961 when his first collection,\u00a0Armed Descent, was published by Hawk\u2019s Well...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16650,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16645\/revisions\/16650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/contramundum.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/CMP_RK2_cover_webcatalog.jpg?zoom=2&resize=360%2C540\")
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