The Time of Voice [Signed Limited Lettered Edition with holograph poem]

Robert Kelly's long project in verse, filling nearly 40 collections, has shown him a master of intellectual energy, kinetic power and primal apprehension, with a range of interest and symbolic resonance as extensive and diverse as any contemporary poet's.

Kelly's new poems in The Time of Voice are perhaps his most accessible to date, underscoring the familiar brilliance of mind and movement with a new depth of emotional understanding. This is writing that jump-starts not only the cerebrum, nerves and senses but the feeling heart: a poetry of key moments, necessary rituals, inevitable passages, recurrent beginnings and ends.

Kelly remains a true and original voice in American poetry. He is one of the few prolific writers whose every book is a welcome revelation. --Bloomsbury Review

Robert Kelly's long project in verse, now filling nearly forty collections, has shown him to be a master of intellectual energy, kinetic power, and primal apprehension, with a range of interest and symbolic resonance as extensive and diverse as any contemporary poet's. The poems in The Time of Voice are perhaps his most accessible to date, underscoring the familiar brilliance of mind and movement with a new depth of emotional understanding. This is writing that jumpstarts not only the cerebrum, nerves, and senses, but also the feeling heart: a poetry of key moments, necessary rituals, inevitable passages, recurrent beginnings and ends. --Tom Clark

Robert Kelly knows that poetry is a struggle of the language to be more than itself, to mean more than language can normally say. Prose is logic; poetry is, at least partly, a shamanism. Kelly gets at the sense that there is something larger behind the everyday. --New York Press