Born in Brooklyn in 1935, Robert Kelly is the author of more than fifty collections of poems, including Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 and Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News, which received the Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Award in 1980... More >
Science explains nothing
but holds all together as
many things as it can count
science is a basket
not a religion he said
a cat as big as a cat
the moon the size of the moon
science is the same as poetry
only it uses the wrong words.