Robert Kelly
THREADS

First Intensity Press
ISBN 10: 1-889960-11-X
ISBH 13: 978-1-889960-11-1
Paper, 108 pp., 6x9
$18

“In these incisive, lyrical meditations, Kelly tracks being's shining through existence as ‘pure presence,’ and reminds us that as wood is present in the sculpture of a god, so the tree is present in the wood. Without the mindfulness of such ‘threads,’ silence could be forgotten as the ground of speech, the un-nameable as the heart of knowledge, and poetry as the source of language. Kelly’s rich allusions spin an alchemical web of relations that invites us to attend to the world worlding itself into being, and to the stone upon the road that is overlooked until it becomes the philosopher in our shoe.” —Charles Borkhuis.

Robert Kelly, author of Shame/Scham, Queen of Terrors, The Time of Voice, Red Actions, Lapis, and many more books of poetry and fiction, lives in New York’s Hudson Valley region and teaches at Bard College.

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