Eventually after a few hundred or thousand years we begin to comprehend the incomprehensible—Dante, Aeschylus, Milton—and they become classics with great celebrity but diminished use. But till then the texts are of great power, startling, provoking, eliciting. Some grand provokers—Pindar himself, Li Shang-yin, Lycophron, H¨olderlin, Stein—still wait their turn, still turn us toward the poem we must write, the poem they force us to write, to make sense of what they do to our heads. —Robert Kelly Photo: Richard Renaldi
6 robert kelly: 50 years at bard