num_pages: 160
description: Ninety poems by Robert Kelly. The poet “Writing is the generosity of writing down whatever comes into your mind, in sequence, as true as you can, The diligence of working with that, in all the ways you can, to make it speak, to make it say more than you know. . . The patience to know that what the writing is saying is more important, always, than what you want to say. . . The moral discipline not to use the words to sell yourself or your ideas. The concentration to stay with the work under hand, stay inside it, thinking only with it and not beside it, letting all thinking and feeling come to focus in it, as it. The wisdom to know when you’re done. When it’s done.”
language: English
title: The Time of Voice: Poems 1994-1996
titlecomplete: The Time of Voice: Poems 1994-1996
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 13
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: American Book Award
publisher: Black Sparrow Press