Ninety poems by Robert Kelly. The poet writes: "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."
- ISBN10 1574230794
- ISBN13 9781574230796
- Publish Date 11 October 2007
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Imprint Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English