Doctor of Silence

by Robert Kelly

In these twenty-seven stories: an apparently happily married woman burns a hole in her dress with an iron and disappears into it; a fundamentalist preacher meets the lords of Karma; a post-apocalyptic tribe of wanderers reconceive the possibilities of living life; a proposal for a society of Hypnogeographers to map the places we go in dreams; a smugly dysfunctional youth encounters an old gypsy with her weird "infinite tarot" . . .

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

180 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1988

About the author

Kelly has published more than fifty books of poetry and prose, including Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 (1995) and a collection of short fictions, A Transparent Tree (1985). Many were published by the Black Sparrow Press. He also edited the anthology A Controversy of Poets (1965).Kelly was of great help to the Hungryalist group of poets of India during the trial of Malay Roychoudhury,with whom he had correspondence,now archived at Kolkata.

Kelly received the Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Award (1980) for Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News and the American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation (1991) for In Time.