Lapis

by Robert Kelly

Book Overview

Lapis, the philosopher's stone, is the legendary substance that alchemists use to turn base metals into gold. Robert Kelly's 50-year pursuit of its poetic equivalent--the words that transform the common things of life into art--yields the 127 new texts collected here. In these richly varied poems and prose poems-some occasioned by reading Dickinson and Yeats, visiting churches and art museums, traveling through Austria, France, Italy, and Ireland, and reliving the wounds of childhood and adolescence--Kelly describes personal experience and, by touching it with memory and imagination, makes it stranger than life itself. He is the diarist as dreamer, and the dreamer as alchemist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574231863
• ISBN13: 9781574231861
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"