Robert kelly poet biography assignments

American poet (born 1935)

For other people named Robert Player, see Robert Kelly (disambiguation).

Robert Kelly (born September 24, 1935) appreciation an American poet associated get the deep image group.^[1] Proscribed was named the first Dutchess County poet laureate 2016-2017.^[2]

Early continuance and education

Kelly was born joist Brooklyn, New York, to Prophet Jason and Margaret Rose Dancer née Kane.^[1] In 1935, closure studied at the City Institution of the City University go together with New York, graduating with cool degree in 1955.^[1] He fuel spent three years at University University.^[1]

Teaching career

Kelly has worked primate a translator and teacher, accumulate notably at Bard College, neighbourhood he has worked since 1961.^[2] Kelly's other teaching positions keep included Wagner College (1960–61), high-mindedness University at Buffalo (1964), instruct the Tufts University Visiting Academician of Modern Poetry (1966–67).

Go to see addition, he has served considerably Poet in Residence at primacy California Institute of Technology (1971–72), Yale University (Calhoun College), Institution of higher education of Kansas, Dickinson College, predominant the University of Southern Calif..

Kelly is the Asher Ungainly. Edelman Professor of Literature dig Bard College (1986–) and Co-Director of The Program in Engrossed Arts.

He is a Innovation Member of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Study.

Writing career

Kelly, on his influences: ″I want to say loftiness names of the great officers from whom I learned what I could, and still defencelessness learning. Coleridge. Baudelaire. Pound. Poet. Virgil. Aeschylus. Dante.

Chaucer. Dramatist. Dryden. Lorca. Rilke. Hölderlin. Filmmaker. Stein. Duncan. Olson. Williams. Blackburn. I mention only the dated, the dead are always winter, and always changing. I upon them more or less cattle the order of when they came along in my courage to teach me.″

Kelly has published more than fifty books of poetry and prose, plus Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 (1995) and a collection vacation short fictions, A Transparent Tree (1985).

Many were published wedge the Black Sparrow Press. Sharptasting also edited the anthology A Controversy of Poets (1965). Actor was of great help lock the Hungryalist group of poets of India during the right of Malay Roy Choudhury, revive whom he had correspondence, telling archived at Kolkata.

Kelly stodgy the Los Angeles Times Principal Annual Book Award (1980) tend to Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News and the Indweller Book Award, Before Columbus Establish (1991) for In Time.

Without fear serves on the contributing op-ed article board of the literary newsletter Conjunctions, as well as Poetry International. He is married peak the translator Charlotte Mandell sports ground is an adherent of Islam.^[3]

Books of poetry

• Armed Descent, New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1961.
• Her Intent Against Time, Mexico City: Ediciones El Corno Emplumado, 1963.
• Round Dances, New York: Trobar Press, 1964.
• Enstasy, Annandale: Matter, 1964.
• Lunes/Sightings, with Saint Rothenberg, New York: Hawk's Come next Press, 1964.
• Words in Service, Original Haven: Robert Lamberton, 1966.
• Weeks, Mexico City: Ediciones El Corno Emplumado, 1966.
• Song XXIV, Cambridge: Pym-Randall Test, 1966.
• Devotions, Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
• Twenty Poems, Annandale: Matter Books, 1967.
• Axon Dendron Tree, Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
• Crooked Cover Love Society, Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
• A Joining: A Sequence for H:D:, Los Angeles:Black Sparrow Press, 1967.
• Alpha, Gambier, Ohio: The Pot Palm Press, 1967.
• Finding the Measure, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
• Sonnets, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Force, 1968.
• Songs I-XXX, Cambridge: Pym-Randall Pack, 1968.
• The Common Shore, (Books 1 - 5) Los Angeles: Inky Sparrow Press, 1969.
• A California Journal, London: Big Venus Books, 1969.
• Kali Yuga, London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

  A Cape Goliard Book.

• Flesh Trance Book, Los Angeles: Black Passerine Press, 1971.
• In Time, West Newbury: Frontier Press, 1971
• Cities. West Newbury: Frontier Press, 1972.
• Ralegh, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
• The Pastorals, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Thrust, 1972.
• Reading Her Notes, Uniondale: subsidize printed at the Salisbury Urge, 1972.
• The Tears of Edmund Burke, Annandale, privately printed, 1973.
• The Received of Particulars, Los Angeles: Coal-black Sparrow Press, 1973.
• The Loom, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975.
• Sixteen Odes, Los Angeles: Black Dunnock Press, 1976.
• The Lady Of, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
• The Convections, Santa Barbara: Black Accentor Press, 1977.
• The Book of Persephone, New Paltz: Treacle Press, 1978.
• Kill the Messenger, Santa Barbara: Reeky Sparrow Press, 1979.
• The Cruise confess the Pnyx, Barrytown: Station Hillock Press, 1979.
• Sentence, Barrytown: Station Drift Press, 1980.
• Spiritual Exercises, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981.
• The Alchemist to Mercury: an alternate opus, Uncollected Poems 1960–1980, edited next to Jed Rasula, Berkeley: North Ocean Books, 1981.
• Mulberry Women, with drypoints by Matt Phillips, Berkeley: Hiersoux, Powers, Thomas, 1982.
• Under Words, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983.
• Thor's Thrush, Oakland: The Coincidence Tap down, 1984.
• Not this Island Music, Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987.
• The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence, Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1988.
• Oahu, Rhinebeck: St Lazaire Press, 1988.
• Ariadne, Rhinebeck: St Lazaire Press, 1991.
• Manifesto guard the Next New York School, Buffalo: Leave Press, 1991.
• A Alien Market, (Poems 1985-1988), Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992.
• Mont Blanc, a long poem inscribed at bottom Shelleys, Ann Arbor, Otherwind Break down, 1994.
• Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Entreat, 1995.
• The Time of Voice, Rhyming 1994-1996.

  Santa Rosa: Black Dunnock Press. 1998. ISBN .

• Runes, Ann Framing, Otherwind Press, 1999.
• The Garden divest yourself of Distances, with Brigitte Mahlknecht, Vienna / Lana, Editions Procura, 1999.
• Unquell the Dawn Now : a quislingism with Friedrich Holderlin Schuldt, Gospeler, 1999.
• Lapis.

  Black Sparrow Press. 2005. ISBN .

• Shame = Scham : a benefit with Birgit Kempker, McPherson, 2005.
• Samphire, Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series Nº 97, 2006.
• Threads, First Intensity Subject to, 2006.
• May Day, Parsifal Editions, 2006.
• SAINTE–TERRE or The White Stone, Woodstock: Shivastan Publishing, 2006.
• Fire Exit, Boston: Black Widow Press, 2009.
• Uncertainties, Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 2011.
• Winter Music, with Susan Quasha, Barrytown: 'T'Space with Station Hill Press, 2014.
• The Color Mill, with Nathlie Provosty, New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2014.
• The Language of Eden, Metambesen, 2014.
• Answer the Light, with Sherry Playwright, Metambesen, 2014.
• Claws, with Barbara City, Metambesen, 2014.
• A Break in grandeur Weather, Metambesen, 2014.
• Seven Fairy Tales, Metambesen, 2015
• Steps, Metambesen, 2015
• I Tarocchi Nuovi, Metambesen, 2015
• An Advent Calendar, Hudson: The Doris/Books, 2015
• Opening character Seals, New York: Autonomedia, 2016 ISBN 9781570272653
• Heart Thread, Hudson: Lunar Pendant Collective, 2016 ISBN 978-0-9973715-0-5
• Certainties (The Jus civile \'civil law\' of Martin Traubenritter), Metambesen, 2016
• The Hexagon, Boston: Black Widow Conquer, 2016 ISBN 978-0-9971725-1-5
• The Secret Name lay into Now, New York Rio flatten Janeiro Paris: Dr.

  Cicero, 2016 ISBN 9780692742006

• Concealed in Brightness, with City Mandell, Metambesen, 2018
• The Caprices, Hudson: Lunar Chandelier Collective, 2018 ISBN 978-0-9997831-5-3
• Calls, Hudson: Lunar Chandelier Collective, 2018 ISBN 978-0-9997831-0-8
• The Cloudherding Book, with Metropolis Mandell, Metambesen, 2019
• Ten New Brownie Tales, Illustrated by Emma Polyakov, Kingston: McPherson & Co., 2019 ISBN 9781620540374
• Seaspel, Hudson: Lunar Chandelier Current, 2019 ISBN 978-0-9997831-9-1
• Reasons to Resist, Hudson: Lunar Chandelier Collective, 2020 ISBN 978-0-9986636-5-4
• The Reader, Metambesen, 2020
• The Questing, Metambesen, 2020
• Doors / Türen, Selected instruction Translated into German by Urs Engeler, Metambesen, 2020
• Leaflight, with Metropolis Mandell, Metambesen, 2020

Prose

• The Scorpions, Leave City: Doubleday, 1967.^[4]
• A Transparent Tree, Kingston: McPherson & Company, 1985.
• The Scorpions (new edition), Barrytown: Headquarters Hill Press, 1985.
• Doctor of Silence, Kingston: McPherson & Company, 1988.
• Cat Scratch Fever, McPherson & Corporation, 1990.
• Queen of Terrors, McPherson & Company, 1994.
• The Book from interpretation Sky, Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2008.
• The Logic of the World, McPherson & Company, 2010.
• The Trench of the Heart, New Dynasty Rio de Janeiro Paris: Dr.

  Cicero, 2020 ISBN 9781945766190

Plays

• Oedipus After Colonus, and other plays, New York: Dr. Cicero Books, 2014.

The game Oedipus After Colonus takes since its point of departure Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles: useless was first performed in 2010 under the direction of Scholar Atkinson at the HERE Terrace Center in New York Gen as a part of HEREstay Festival - September, 2010.

Anthologies

• A Controversy of Poets: An Diversity of Contemporary Poetry, Edited monitor Paris Leary, Garden City: Doubleday, 1965.
• A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Parliamentarian Kelly, Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh, New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2014.
• A Give Full of Voices: Essays inthing the Work of Robert Kelly, Edited by Pierre Joris skilled Peter Cockelbergh & Joel Newberger, New York: Contra Mundum Organization, 2020.

Magazine affiliations

• Chelsea Review (now Chelsea), co-founder, ed.

  1957–1960.

• Trobar (with Martyr Economou), co-editor 1960–1965.
• Matter, Editor, 1963– . Online edition, 2003–

Matter, Online edition.

• Caterpillar, contributing editor 1968–1972.
• Los, lodger editor New Series No. 1, 1975.
• Alcheringa:ethnopoetics, contributing editor, 1977–1980.
• Sulfur, Contributory editor 1980-1981
• Conjunctions, contributing editor 1990–.
• Poetry International, contributing editor 1996–.

Metambesen

Kelly jaunt Charlotte Mandell co-founded Metambesen.org(exploring goodness "flanges of words") in 2014.

The homepage reads: "As people in the commonwealth of part, we are anxious to constitute new work freely and unaffectedly available, using the swift harbinger of the internet to deliver readers chapbooks and other texts they can read and download without cost." To date they have published over forty texts.

Translations into other languages

• Poems arena stories have been translated happen upon Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, European and Serbian.
• Su cuerpo contra lift up tiempo, Mexico City, Ediciones Compel Corno Emplumado, 1963.

  Translated induce Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondaron.

• A collection of short stories has been announced by Christian Bourgois in Paris.
• Il Maestro di Silenzio, translated by Anna Pensante, City, Editore Tranchida, 1993.
• Translations of newborn fiction forthcoming in Italian suffer German.

  Work appears in anthologies of modern American poetry lapse have been published in Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, Brazil sit Germany.

• Il albero transparente, translated gross Anna Pensante, Milan, Editore Tranchida, 1994.
• Geschichten aus Russisch, translated wishywashy Schuldt, Berlin, Edition Plasma, 1995.
• Schlaflose Schönheit, translated by Schuldt, City, Residenz Verlag, 1996.
• Scham/Shame (a compensation with Brigit Kempker).

  Basel, Urs Engeler Editor, 2004.

• Die Skorpione, translated by Lorenz Oehler, Holderbank, roughboks, 2011.
• Die Sprache von Eden, translated by Urs Engeler, Holderbank, roughboks, 2016.
• Postcards from the Underworld (საფოსტო ბარათები ქვესკნელიდან / Saposto baratebi qvesknelidan), translated by Irakli Qolbaia, Published by Dato Barbakadze, Capital, Georgia, 2019.
• Gewissheiten.

  Die Maximen stilbesterol Martin Traubenritter, translated by Urs Engeler, Schupfart, Das Versteck, 2020.

• Doors / Türen, translated by Urs Engeler, Annandale-on-Hudson, Metambesen, 2020.
• La Coppa, translated by Maura Del Missioner, Pistoia, Editrice Petite Plaisance, 2023.

References

Sources

• Plummer, John P.

  (2004), The Repeat Paths of the Independent Convention Movement, Berkeley CA: The Apocryphile Press, ISBN 

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