Kill the Messenger
  • Published:
    Oct-1979
  • Formats:
    Print
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    240
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Everything that ought to be known about Robert Kelly can be found in his books, of which this is the fortieth.


From "The Court Painter":


How can I show you the truth of

anyone witout his face you ask?

The face is the last thing I paint,

& the least important.

It is there to trick the subject

into thinking he is one,

that he has been 'represented.'

But where he is is in a fold

of cape, shadow of a label,

wrinkle between elbow & those wide

gold stripes that tell how great he is

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    • First Edition
    • Oct-1979
    • Black Sparrow Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0876854323
    • ISBN13: 9780876854327



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