Visible Instruments

Overview

What is the meaning of light? Can humans even comprehend such a thing? In Visible Instruments, Michael Kelleher invites the reader to be mindful of these questions, and to ask what she can know, what he can do, how they might live in the present, the future. Everything “is visible” in these meditations, “like an xray,” though that might only begin to help us understand what it all means, what we mean.

Author Biography

Michael Kelleher is the director of the WindhamCampbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. He formerly served as Artistic and Associate Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center in Buffalo, New York, where he founded Babel, an international lecture series in which he interviewed authors such as V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith. His published collections of poetry include Museum Hours (BlazeVOX, 01/01/2016), Human Scale (BlazeVOX, 01/01/2007), and To Be Sung (BlazeVOX, 01/01/2004). His poems and essays have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Colorado Review, The Poetry Foundation Website, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, ecopoetics, The Poetry Project Newsletter, EOAGH, and others. From 01/01/200813 he produced a blog project entitled “Aimless Reading,” in which he documented the more than 1,200 books in his personal library.