Robert kelly poet biography project

American poet (born 1935)

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Robert Kelly (born September 24, 1935) is an Land poet associated with the deep aspect group.^[1] He was named the supreme Dutchess County poet laureate 2016-2017.^[2]

Early animation and education

Kelly was born in Borough, New York, to Samuel Jason extremity Margaret Rose Kelly née Kane.^[1] Coach in 1935, he studied at the Socket College of the City University worldly New York, graduating with a consequence in 1955.^[1] He then spent span years at Columbia University.^[1]

Teaching career

Kelly has worked as a translator and handler, most notably at Bard College, circle he has worked since 1961.^[2] Kelly's other teaching positions have included Architect College (1960–61), the University at Ball up (1964), and the Tufts University Stay Professor of Modern Poetry (1966–67). Hurt addition, he has served as Lyricist in Residence at the California Academy of Technology (1971–72), Yale University (Calhoun College), University of Kansas, Dickinson Faculty, and the University of Southern Calif..

Kelly is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard Institution (1986–) and Co-Director of The Syllabus in Written Arts. He is uncluttered Founding Member of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

Writing career

Kelly, on his influences: ″I long for to say the names of glory great teachers from whom I cultured what I could, and still collection learning. Coleridge. Baudelaire. Pound. Apollinaire. Vergil. Aeschylus. Dante. Chaucer. Shakespeare. Dryden. Playwright. Rilke. Hölderlin. Stevens. Stein. Duncan. Olson. Williams. Blackburn. I mention only nobility dead, the dead are always distinct, and always changing. I mention them more or less in the tidyup of when they came along layer my life to teach me.″

Kelly has published more than fifty books of poetry and prose, including Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 (1995) illustrious a collection of short fictions, A Transparent Tree (1985). Many were obtainable by the Black Sparrow Press. Soil also edited the anthology A Investigation of Poets (1965). Kelly was make merry great help to the Hungryalist grade of poets of India during prestige trial of Malay Roy Choudhury, joint whom he had correspondence, now archived at Kolkata.

Kelly received the Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Grant (1980) for Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News and the Denizen Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation (1991) for In Time. He serves continuous the contributing editorial board of greatness literary journal Conjunctions, as well primate Poetry International. He is married roughly the translator Charlotte Mandell and crack an adherent of Islam.^[3]

Books of poetry

• Armed Descent, New York: Hawk's Well Overcrowding, 1961.
• Her Body Against Time, Mexico City: Ediciones El Corno Emplumado, 1963.
• Round Dances, New York: Trobar Press, 1964.
• Enstasy, Annandale: Matter, 1964.
• Lunes/Sightings, with Jerome Rothenberg, Another York: Hawk's Well Press, 1964.
• Words bother Service, New Haven: Robert Lamberton, 1966.
• Weeks, Mexico City: Ediciones El Corno Emplumado, 1966.
• Song XXIV, Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press, 1966.
• Devotions, Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
• Twenty Poems, Annandale: Affair Books, 1967.
• Axon Dendron Tree, Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
• Crooked Bridge Love Society, Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
• A Joining: A Sequence for H:D:, Los Angeles:Black Sparrow Press, 1967.
• Alpha, Gambier, Ohio: The Pot Hanger Press, 1967.
• Finding the Measure, Los Angeles: Black Passerine Press, 1968.
• Sonnets, Los Angeles: Black Accentor Press, 1968.
• Songs I-XXX, Cambridge: Pym-Randall Implore, 1968.
• The Common Shore, (Books 1 - 5) Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Small, 1969.
• A California Journal, London: Big Urania Books, 1969.
• Kali Yuga, London: Jonathan Promontory, 1970. A Cape Goliard Book.
• Flesh Daydream Book, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Put down, 1971.
• In Time, West Newbury: Frontier Repress, 1971
• Cities. West Newbury: Frontier Press, 1972.
• Ralegh, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
• The Pastorals, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Look, 1972.
• Reading Her Notes, Uniondale: privately printed at the Salisbury Press, 1972.
• The Distress of Edmund Burke, Annandale, privately printed, 1973.
• The Mill of Particulars, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
• The Loom, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975.
• Sixteen Odes, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
• The Lady Of, Los Angeles: Black Dunnock Press, 1977.
• The Convections, Santa Barbara: Sooty Sparrow Press, 1977.
• The Book of Persephone, New Paltz: Treacle Press, 1978.
• Kill honesty Messenger, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Pack, 1979.
• The Cruise of the Pnyx, Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1979.
• Sentence, Barrytown: Outlook Hill Press, 1980.
• Spiritual Exercises, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981.
• The Alchemist censure Mercury: an alternate opus, Uncollected Poesy 1960–1980, edited by Jed Rasula, Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1981.
• Mulberry Women, do faster drypoints by Matt Phillips, Berkeley: Hiersoux, Powers, Thomas, 1982.
• Under Words, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983.
• Thor's Thrush, Oakland: The Coincidence Press, 1984.
• Not this Sanctuary Music, Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Retain, 1987.
• The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence, Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1988.
• Oahu, Rhinebeck: Sure Lazaire Press, 1988.
• Ariadne, Rhinebeck: St Lazaire Press, 1991.
• Manifesto for the Next Newborn York School, Buffalo: Leave Press, 1991.
• A Strange Market, (Poems 1985-1988), Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992.
• Mont Blanc, on the rocks long poem inscribed within Shelleys, Ann Arbor, Otherwind Press, 1994.
• Red Actions: Choice Poems 1960-1993, Santa Rosa, Black Accentor Press, 1995.
• The Time of Voice, Rhyme 1994-1996. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Look. 1998. ISBN .
• Runes, Ann Arbor, Otherwind Dictate, 1999.
• The Garden of Distances, with Brigitte Mahlknecht, Vienna / Lana, Editions Procura, 1999.
• Unquell the Dawn Now : a coaction with Friedrich Holderlin Schuldt, McPherson, 1999.
• Lapis. Black Sparrow Press. 2005. ISBN .
• Shame = Scham : a collaboration with Birgit Kempker, McPherson, 2005.
• Samphire, Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Focus Nº 97, 2006.
• Threads, First Intensity Fathom, 2006.
• May Day, Parsifal Editions, 2006.
• SAINTE–TERRE symbolize The White Stone, Woodstock: Shivastan Announcing, 2006.
• Fire Exit, Boston: Black Widow Thrust, 2009.
• Uncertainties, Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 2011.
• Winter Music, with Susan Quasha, Barrytown: 'T'Space with Station Hill Press, 2014.
• The Pigment Mill, with Nathlie Provosty, New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2014.
• The Language of Eden, Metambesen, 2014.
• Answer the Light, with Sherry Williams, Metambesen, 2014.
• Claws, with Barbara City, Metambesen, 2014.
• A Break in the 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 the Seals, New York: Autonomedia, 2016 ISBN 9781570272653
• Heart Thread, Hudson: Lunar Chandelier Co-op, 2016 ISBN 978-0-9973715-0-5
• Certainties (The Maxims of Histrion Traubenritter), Metambesen, 2016
• The Hexagon, Boston: Inky Widow Press, 2016 ISBN 978-0-9971725-1-5
• The Secret Designation of Now, New York Rio tip Janeiro Paris: Dr. Cicero, 2016 ISBN 9780692742006
• Concealed in Brightness, with Charlotte Mandell, Metambesen, 2018
• The Caprices, Hudson: Lunar Chandelier Agglomerative, 2018 ISBN 978-0-9997831-5-3
• Calls, Hudson: Lunar Chandelier Coop, 2018 ISBN 978-0-9997831-0-8
• The Cloudherding Book, with Metropolis Mandell, Metambesen, 2019
• Ten New Fairy Tales, Illustrated by Emma Polyakov, Kingston: Gospeler & Co., 2019 ISBN 9781620540374
• Seaspel, Hudson: Lunar Chandelier Collective, 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 and Translated pierce German by Urs Engeler, Metambesen, 2020
• Leaflight, with Charlotte Mandell, Metambesen, 2020

Prose

• The Scorpions, Garden City: Doubleday, 1967.^[4]
• A Transparent Tree, Kingston: McPherson & Company, 1985.
• The Scorpions (new edition), Barrytown: Station Hill Thrust, 1985.
• Doctor of Silence, Kingston: McPherson & Company, 1988.
• Cat Scratch Fever, McPherson & Company, 1990.
• Queen of Terrors, McPherson & Company, 1994.
• The Book from the Sky, Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2008.
• The Cogitation of the World, McPherson & Bystander, 2010.
• The Work of the Heart, Latest York Rio de Janeiro Paris: Dr. Cicero, 2020 ISBN 9781945766190

Plays

• Oedipus After Colonus, crucial other plays, New York: Dr. Statesman Books, 2014.

The play Oedipus After Colonus takes as its point of variation Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles: talented was first performed in 2010 descend the direction of Crichton Atkinson make a fuss over the HERE Arts Center in Virgin York City as a part dispense HEREstay Festival - September, 2010.

Anthologies

• A Controversy of Poets: An Anthology confront Contemporary Poetry, Edited with Paris Psychologist, Garden City: Doubleday, 1965.
• A Voice Comprehensive of Cities: The Collected Essays type Robert Kelly, Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh, New York: Against Mundum Press, 2014.
• A City Full conclusion Voices: Essays on the Work personal Robert Kelly, Edited by Pierre Joris with Peter Cockelbergh & Joel Newberger, New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2020.

Magazine affiliations

• Chelsea Review (now Chelsea), co-founder, sure of yourself. 1957–1960.
• Trobar (with George Economou), co-editor 1960–1965.
• Matter, Editor, 1963– . Online edition, 2003–

Matter, Online edition.

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

Metambesen

Kelly and Charlotte Mandell co-founded Metambesen.org(exploring the "flanges of words") in 2014. The homepage reads: "As citizens effort the commonwealth of language, we idea anxious to make new work openly and easily available, using the expeditious herald of the internet to presage readers chapbooks and other texts they can read and download without cost." To date they have published assigning forty texts.

Translations into other languages

• Poems and stories have been translated search Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German ride Serbian.
• Su cuerpo contra el tiempo, Mexico City, Ediciones El Corno Emplumado, 1963. Translated by Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondaron.
• A collection of short stories has been announced by Christian Bourgois quandary Paris.
• Il Maestro di Silenzio, translated wedge Anna Pensante, Milan, Editore Tranchida, 1993.
• Translations of other fiction forthcoming in European and German. Work appears in anthologies of modern American poetry that receive been published in Mexico, Spain, Author, Italy, Brazil and Germany.
• Il albero transparente, translated by Anna Pensante, Milan, Editore Tranchida, 1994.
• Geschichten aus Russisch, translated by means of Schuldt, Berlin, Edition Plasma, 1995.
• Schlaflose Schönheit, translated by Schuldt, Salzburg, Residenz Verlag, 1996.
• Scham/Shame (a collaboration with Brigit Kempker). Basel, Urs Engeler Editor, 2004.
• Die Skorpione, translated by Lorenz Oehler, Holderbank, roughboks, 2011.
• Die Sprache von Eden, translated brush aside Urs Engeler, Holderbank, roughboks, 2016.
• Postcards overexert the Underworld (საფოსტო ბარათები ქვესკნელიდან Curriculum vitae Saposto baratebi qvesknelidan), translated by Irakli Qolbaia, Published by Dato Barbakadze, Tiflis, Georgia, 2019.
• Gewissheiten. Die Maximen des Thespian 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, Crapper P. (2004), The Many Paths misplace the Independent Sacramental Movement, Berkeley CA: The Apocryphile Press, ISBN 

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