Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly is an American poet and fiction writer born in Brooklyn in 1935. He has taught at Bard College since 1961. He has published more than 60 volumes of fiction, poetry, and prose-poems. His novel The Scorpions (1967) brought him a cult readership, and his book Kill The Messenger won the Los Angeles Times Book Award in 1980. McPherson & Company has published several of his fiction collections, including A Transparent Tree and The Logic of the World and Other Fictions.