The Time of Voice : Poems, 1994-1996

Robert Kelly's poetry shows 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. This collection, The Time of Voice is 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.