Family Health &amp; Medical Guide;Hc;1996 [Hardcover]

Family Health & Medical Guide

Robert Kelly

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Thomas Nelson. Inc.

For Those in Peril: The Life and Times of Sir William Hillary, Founder of the R.N.L.I.

SHEARWATER PRESS LTD

The Book of Persephone

One of 100 numbered copies signed by Kelly. Illustrated by Carolee Schneemann.

Treacle Press

An Italian painter and an American poet briefly meet once and, liking one another's work, decide to experiment with the interaction of visual text and verbal text. The Garden of Distances is the result: a marriage of 38 etchings with a book-length multipart interlocking poem. It was not a matter of person responding to person but of work responding to work. The pictures and texts were exchanged by fax, and the whole process carried out from afar between New York City, Annandale-on-Hudson, and Bolzano (Italy), from July to October, 1998. The distances between the artists became emblematic of the distances negotiated in the drawings and in the texts, which are like all the joyful and sorrowful distances between people.  Each time it was the drawing that came first, then the text tried to answer it. And to that answer the next drawing somehow came to speak-- answer on top of answer till the gardening was done. Brigitte Mahlknecht's 38 etchings (two of which are reproduced in color) are finely detailed maps of the unconscious, packed spaces the sizes of dreams, archetypal spoor. Robert Kelly's poems are songs of enormous beauty, endlessly inventive, reflexive, inviting and open. This edition of The Garden of Distances is published in the U.S. by special arrangement with Edition Per Procura of Vienna.

The Garden of Distances: Drawings and Poems

Literature & Fiction

Brigitte Mahlknecht

Poetry

McPherson & Co

Shame may be the most perdurably uncategorizable and daring book Robert Kelly has yet published during a career containing more than sixty sui generis volumes. It is a purloined correspondence, an investigatory improvisation, an apologia, a psychological expose, a desideratum, a profundity, and jazz. Yet, Shame is a collaboration. When Birgit Kempker -- a younger German writer living in Basel, Switzerland -- invited Kelly to create a work together, neither knew the other except by reputation. They proceeded to communicate by e-mail for two years through sixteen exchanges, and the subject was to be shame at its most personal, prosaic, intimate, and even sometimes fetching; and shame at its most generic, couched, poetic and hallucinatory. The barrier between them was not merely not knowing one another while risking the limits of naked trust, but of surmounting age, gender, nationality and language. Birgit Kempker wrote in German, and Robert Kelly in English. Shame is a love story. A story of two tongues. Shame is a book spoken between two lovers who will never be lovers, a book of the unabashed and prised apart secret intimacy that can be laid bare against all constraint by ghostly lovers -- virtual, exemplary, psychic guides to one another, and all of the rest of us.

Shame / Scham: A Collaboration (English and German Edition)

Birgit Kempker

McPherson & Company

Four previous volumes of Robert Kelly's manifestly original fictions have been hailed as “exhilarating...full of signs and wonders”; in the New York Times Book Review, “sparking, multiform, yet indivisible” in American Book Review, and “tantalizing, unsettling” in the Review of Contemporary Fiction. Choice rightly points to his “affinities with the writings of Borges, Nabokov, Calvino, and Coover.” The thirty works in this fifth collection of short fictions the first to appear in sixteen years knowingly trespass into fictional realms of droll lyricism, audacious description, studied anachronism, sensual immediacy and subtle compassion. In one, a woman waits at a window for the moon to return her body; another reveals the triple identity of Don Juan; in still another, an itinerant tragedian invents a dangerous form of theatrical performance; in the title story (which has been selected for inclusion in Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010) a dragon questions a youthful knight's errancy, as well as his sanity. Scattered throughout are nine pieces known as “sudden fiction” a genre Kelly named, while other tales appear in the guises of myths, letters, rituals, and quite frequently dreams. “That is the single mystery of sleep,” one narrator reminds, “to teach us to wake up.” The author's agile imagination mines from the thick substance of language the numinous qualities buried within it. His fictions defy the conventionally plotted short story, and seem to conjure narrative from an infinitely recombinant DNA of the psyche. After reading The Logic of the World, the reader risks awakening to discover a hitherto unexplored territory of the mind.

The Logic of the World and Other Fictions

McPherson

Runes

Otherwind Press, Incorporated

Broken Wings (The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Air Armada)

Conn Publishing

This book has the ambition to stage a multi-phased resistance to the power that images exert in the contemporary world, and, at the same time, to offer something like the keys to the transformation of that power. Peter Lamborn Wilson

The Critique of the Image... Is the Defense of the Imagination

Diane Di Prima

Peter Lamborn Wilson

David Levi Strauss

Christopher Bamford

Michael Taussig

Carolee Schneeman

Gerrit Lansing

Charles Stein

Ivan, Illich

Autonomedia

The Cup is a lyrical narrative of two young Americans following an ancient pilgrimage route, their explorations interwoven with legends of the Holy Grail. A poem in 91 sections..

The Cup

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