{"product_id":"a-city-full-of-voices-essays-on-the-work-of-robert-kelly-9781940625348","title":"A City Full of Voices: Essays on the Work of Robert Kelly","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Kelly is one of the major and most prolific American poets of our time. Between 1961 when his first collection, \u003cem\u003eArmed Descent\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Hawk's Well Press, and \u003cem\u003eSeaspel, \u003c\/em\u003e brought 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, \u0026amp; essays. \u003cem\u003eA City Full of Voices\u003c\/em\u003e is the companion volume to the 2014 \u003cem\u003eA Voice Full of Cities\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ethe Collected Essays of Robert Kelly\u003c\/em\u003e, also published by Contra Mundum Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book gathers a wide range of commentaries -- from single-phrase response to full-blown essay, personal meditation \u0026amp; various forms of book reviews -- on Kelly's monumental oeuvre. It covers early reception by a previous generation of poets -- such as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley -- welcoming Kelly among their company, mid-career assessments via an array of compa eros \u0026amp; compa eras for whom Kelly's work has been sustenance and inspiration over many decades, and goes all the way to critical investigations by those younger readers \u0026amp; students of the work coming to Robert Kelly's poetry today. Eminent voices among the contributors include Guy Davenport \u0026amp; Stan Brakhage, Paul Blackburn \u0026amp; Diane Wakoski, Jerome Rothenberg \u0026amp; Clayton Eshleman, George Quasha \u0026amp; Charles Stein, P. Adams Sitney \u0026amp; Sharon Mesmer, John Yau \u0026amp; Jennifer Moxley, Jed Rasula \u0026amp; Mary Caponegro, among many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert 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 \u0026amp; 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, \u0026amp; 2007. Both volumes together thus offer the reader not only a \"collected\" \u0026amp; \"critical\" essays, but also a \"\u003cem\u003eSelected Interviews\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt may seem surprising -- \u0026amp; 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 f ted with a volume of essays. But here it is: \u003cem\u003eA City Full of Voices, \u003c\/em\u003ethe first substantive multi-voiced gathering of writings about one of the absolutely opulent, lavish, generous \u0026amp; bountiful life-works by one of the great contemporary American poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Contra Mundum Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940625348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 626\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.39d","brand":"Pierre Joris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42783698387125,"sku":"9781940625348","price":35.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b8ffd7a3-d6a7-4406-8b99-934ef25817f4.jpg?v=1680014365","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-city-full-of-voices-essays-on-the-work-of-robert-kelly-9781940625348","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}