Robert Kelly writes: "Under words. I was wondering what lay beneath them, the things I said and meant and used, some of, only some of, to build poems. For years their surface had been enough, and then that history (half-fanciful, half-documented) we call etymology. But I wanted a spiritual etymology, to lead the word back - but not now to some Indo-European root, but to its root in my experience, mind in action, tree in the world. Words are narratives intact in themselves, and all the narrations and sequences here (more ...
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Robert Kelly writes: "Under words. I was wondering what lay beneath them, the things I said and meant and used, some of, only some of, to build poems. For years their surface had been enough, and then that history (half-fanciful, half-documented) we call etymology. But I wanted a spiritual etymology, to lead the word back - but not now to some Indo-European root, but to its root in my experience, mind in action, tree in the world. Words are narratives intact in themselves, and all the narrations and sequences here (more story-prone than before in my work) unpack the primal narrative each word tacitly persists in laying before me. This book's title is indebted to Starobinski's account of Saussure's long subtle studies of anagrams in Lucretius and Virgil, Les Mots sous Let Mots. And to the excited turn in my life when I chose, for reasons only my poems talk about, to enter, 1980 and thereafter, my personal underworld, and report the word I heard there."
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Very Good. Size: 5x0x8; Very good paperback copy (NOT ex-library). Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good. Exterior looks great, shelfwear is very minor. Interior appears free of previous owner markings. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. A fine condition book in a fine acetate dust jacket. 160 p. Sewn binding. Quarter cloth over boards. This is #237 of 250 copies numbered and signed by Kelly. A beautiful Black Sparrow book of poetry by Robert Kelly.
