Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. Rusty Morrison says of THREADS: "The complex architectures of Robert Kelly's poem-length sentences keep the reader awake to the materiality of any meaning-making, and to the ardor we can feel for artifice. While grammatically accurate, Kelly's sentences aggravate conventions of completion and subject unity; even though "words break into the clearing" of comprehension, still, to read them means journeying on "a dark road cherishing its mystery / the mystery that talks / qui interroge whatever / asks itself also / at the same time asks you..." And though these sentences travel long and far, Kelly has set the metronome of enjambment to a breath-catching rhythm, so that we indeed feel each "sentence swinging forward in the dark / to meet what, to meet / the meaning of encounter."
