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Curriculum Vitae
P U B L I C A T I O N S
Books of Poetry
- ARMED DESCENT. New York:
Hawk's Well Press, 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). New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1964.
- WORDS IN 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:
Matter 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 Sparrow Press, 1968.
- SONNETS. Los Angeles: Black
Sparrow Press, 1968.
- SONGS I-XXX. Cambridge:
Pym-Randall Press, 1968.
- THE COMMON SHORE. (Books 1
- 5) Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
- A CALIFORNIA JOURNAL.
London: Big Venus Books, 1969.
- KALI YUGA. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1970. A Cape Goliard Book.
- FLESH DREAM BOOK. Los
Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
- RALEGH. Los Angeles: Black
Sparrow Press, 1972.
- THE PASTORALS. Los Angeles:
Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
- READING HER NOTES.
Uniondale: [privately printed at the Salisbury Press), 1972.
- THE TEARS 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 Sparrow Press, 1977.
- THE CONVECTIONS. Santa
Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
- THE BOOK OF PERSEPHONE. New
Paltz: Treacle Press, 1978.
- KILL THE MESSENGER. Santa
Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979.
- SENTENCE. Barrytown:
Station Hill Press, 1980.
- SPIRITUAL EXERCISES. Santa
Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981.
- THE ALCHEMIST TO MERCURY:
an alternate opus. [Uncollected Poems 1960-1980) edited by Jed Rasula]
Berkeley: North Atlantic 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 Press, 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 FOR THE NEXT NEW
YORK SCHOOL. Buffalo: Leave Press, 1991.
- A STRANGE MARKET. (Poems
1985-1988), Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992.
- MONT BLANC (a long poem
inscribed within Shelleys). Ann Arbor, Otherwind Press, 1994.
- RED ACTIONS: Selected
Poems 1960-1993. Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press,1995.
- THE TIME OF VOICE. Poems
1994-1996. Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1998.
- RUNES. Ann Arbor, Otherwind
Press, 1999
- THE GARDEN OF
DISTANCES.(with Brigitte Mahlknecht) Vienna / Lana, Editions Procura,
1999
Books of Fiction
- THE SCORPIONS. New York:
Doubleday, 1967, London: Calder and Boyars, 1968. (2nd Ed., with a new
afterword, Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1986)
- CITIES. West Newbury,
Massachusetts: Frontier Press, 1972.
- A LINE OF SIGHT. Los
Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
- WHERES. Los Angeles: Black
Sparrow Press, 1978.
- THE CRUISE OF THE PNYX.
Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1979.
- "Russian Tales"
in LIKELY STORIES, ed. Bruce McPherson. New Paltz, Treacle Press, 1981.
- A TRANSPARENT TREE.
Kingston: McPherson & Co., 1985.
- DOCTOR OF SILENCE.
Kingston: McPherson & Co., 1988.
- CAT SCRATCH FEVER.
Kingston: McPherson & Co., 1990.
- QUEEN OF TERRORS. Kingston:
McPherson & Co., 1994.
Other Books
- IN TIME. West Newbury,
Massachusetts: Frontier Press, 1972. [Essays and manifestoes]
- A CONTROVERSY OF POETS
(with Paris Leary). New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1965.
- ABZIEHBILDER, HEIMGEHOLT
(with Jacques Roubaud and Schuldt). Graz and Vienna, Droschl, 1995
Magazine
Affiliations
- CHELSEA REVIEW (now
CHELSEA), co-founder, ed. 1957-1960.
- TROBAR (with George
Economou), co-editor 1960-1965.
- MATTER. Editor, 1963- .
- CATERPILLAR, contributing
editor 1968-1972.
- LOS. guest editor, New
Series No. 1, 1975.
- ALCHERINGA:ETHNOPOETICS.
contributing editor, 1977-1980.
- SULFUR. contributing editor
1980-1981.
- CONJUNCTIONS, contributing
editor 1990 .
- POETRY INTERNATIONAL,
contributing editor 1996 .
- FULCRUM, advisory editor
2002.
T E A C H I N G
Current Teaching
Activities
- Asher B. Edelman Professor
of Literature, Bard College (1986 - )
- Co-Director, The Writing
Program, Division of Languages and Literature, Bard College.
- Founding Member of The
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, member of the
Graduate Committee, and director of the Writing Program (1980-1993)
Earlier Teaching
Activities
- Wagner College, 1960-61.
- State University of New
York at Buffalo, 1964.
- Tufts University. Visiting
Professor of Modern Poetry, 1966-67.
- California Institute of
Technology (Caltech). Poet in Residence. 1971-72. (The first occupant of
this position.)
Poet-in-Residence
at:
- Yale University (Calhoun
College)
- Kansas University
- CalTech
- Dickinson College
- University of Southern
California,
- California Institute of the
Arts
Readings and lectures
at many American and Canadian universities.
Useful Bio-bibliographical
data may be found in:
- WORLD AUTHORS (1990
edition) H.W. Wilson Co.
- CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS,
Detroit.
- DICTIONARY OF LITERARY
BIOGRAPHY (Gale Research) Vol.130
- CONTEMPORARY POETS OF THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE, London.
- WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.
- Lepper, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
SEVENTY FIVE POST-WAR AMERICAN POETS.
- PENGUIN COMPANION TO
AMERICAN LITERATURE.
- VORT Number 5 (Robert Kelly
Issue), Bloomington, 1974.
- Critical discussion by
Patrick Meanor in POSTWAR AMERICAN POETRY: One Hundred American Poets,
ed. Joseph Conte, Gale Research, 1996.
- Richard L. Blevins, article
on RK in AMERICAN SHORT STORY WRITERS SINCE WORLD WAR II, Gale Research,
Detroit, 1993.
- Autobiographical Essay in
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: Autobiography Series, Volume 19, Gale Research,
Detroit, 1994.
- Edward Schelb, The Early
Poetry of Robert Kelly. Forthcoming, 2001.
Published
Bibliography
Jed Rasula, "Robert Kelly: A Checklist."
Credences: a Journal of Twentieth Century Poetry and Poetics, New Series,
Volume 3, Number 1, State University of New York at Buffalo. (The same issue
contains a study of the work and guide to it by Rasula: "Ten Different
Fruits on One Different Tree: Reading Robert Kelly," 127-175.) The
checklist runs 35 pages, and lists poems, stories, essays and reviews
published through the early 1980s. A supplement is being prepared covering
essays, poems and stories published through 1988.
Translations into
other languages
- Poems and stories have been
translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German and
Serbian.
- Su cuerpo contra el tiempo, Mexico City, Ediciones El
Corno Emplumado, 1963. Translated by Margaret Randall and Sergio
Mondragon.
- A collection of short
stories has been announced by Christian Bourgois in Paris.
- Il Maestro di Silenzio,translated by Anna
Pensante, Milan, Editore Tranchida, 1993.
- Translations of other
fiction forthcoming in Italian and German. Work appears in anthologies
of modern American poetry that have been published in Mexico, Spain,
France, Italy, Brazil and Germany.
- Il albero trasparente, translated by Anna
Pensante, Milan, Editore Tranchida, 1994.
- Geschichten aus Russisch, translated by Schuldt,
Berlin, Edition Plasma, 1995.
- Schlaflose Schnheit, translated by Schuldt,
Salzburg, Residenz Verlag, 1996.
Anthologies
Some
representative anthologies include:
AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1950 (Eliot Weinberg). THE NORTON
ANTHOLOGY OF POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY (Paul Hoover), FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF
THE CENTURY (Douglas Messerli), THE VOICE THAT IS GREAT WITHIN US (Hayden
Carruth), A CATERPILLAR ANTHOLOGY (Clayton Eshleman), OPEN POETRY (Gross),
AMERICA:A PROPHECY (Rothenberg and Quasha), ACTIVE ANTHOLOGY (Quasha), THE
POSTMODERNS (Allen and Butterick), PRIMARY TROUBLE (Donahue, Foster,
Schwartz), BENEATH A SINGLE MOON: Buddhism in American Poetry (Johnson and
Paulenich), SUDDEN FICTION (Shapard and Thomas), AMERIKANISCHE POETOLOGIE
(Helmut Breinig), PRAYERS AT 3 A.M. (Phil Cousineau). POETRY OF THE
MILLENNIUM (Rothenberg & Joris).
H O N O R S
- Doctor of Letters, State
University of New York, Oneonta, 1994.
- Award for Distinction from
the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1986.
- National Endowment for the
Arts, Fellowship 1976.
- CAPS Fellow, 1978.
- Los Angeles Times Award
1980, for the Best Book of Poetry of the Year. Represented the United
States at the International Poetry Festival 1987, Luxemburg.
- Judge on the Poetry Panel
for the New York Foundation of the Arts, 1988.
- Judge for Fiction, General
Electric Awards, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, 1988.
- National Endowment for the
Arts, Panelist for Small Press Publication, 1990-91.
- "Hercules
Musarum" chosen for The Best American Poetry 1988, edited by John
Ashbery, New York, Collier Books, 1988.
- "Flowers for the New
Year" chosen for The Best American Poetry 1991, edited by Mark
Strand. New York, Collier Books, 1991.
- "Mapping" chosen
for The Best American Poetry 1993 , edited by Louise Glck. New York,
1993.
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