Fire Exit: A Poem

The Island Cycle #1

by Robert Kelly

A sustained long sequence poem by award winning poet Robert Kelly. Widely anthologized and published, Robert Kelly, whose writing of poety now spans some fifty years, spent three years working and re-working this poem, which will rightly be called one of the major works in his long and prolific career.

201 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 2009

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.

Reviews

[George · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like his book, May Day, Fire Exit is yet another extraordinary accomplishment from Robert Kelly. Black Widow Press has done this work well by presenting this long poem in its entirety.