Robert Creeley, Author . New Directions $21.95 (103p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1556-5
Creeley won the Bolligen Prize in 1999, a Before Columbus Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, and a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001 following his magisterial, darkly nuanced last collection, Life & Death (1998). This book seems at...
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Robert Creeley, Author . Univ. of California $21.95 (89p) ISBN 978-0-520-24791-8
Creeley, who died last year at 78, is among the American masters born in the 1920s, a generation that includes John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich. This slim volume, filled out with the cogent essay "Reflections on Whitman in Age," presents 31...
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Robert Creeley, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $14.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1122-2
Creeley's ( Memory Gardens ) singular aesthetic vision remains strikingly evident as he continues to prod the boundaries of language and expression. Characteristically spare and tightly structured, these poems reflect the poet's concern with the...
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Robert Creeley, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $17.95 (116p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1263-2
Fittingly, Creeley's ( Windows ) new collection is prefaced by the Coleridge poem ``Frost at Midnight,'' in which the speaker celebrates ``This populous village! . . . the numberless goings on of life.'' Creeley's home in this cacophony is, first...
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Robert Creeley, Author University of California Press $60 (662p) ISBN 978-0-520-24159-6
Creeley, who died last year at nearly 80, was one of the great poets of the American 20th century. This collection brings together the books from the second half of his career, forming a companion to a volume covering 1945-1975. This book doesn't...
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Robert Creeley, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $15.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-8112-0973-1
Sometimes it seems as if Creeley's new poems are merely an exercise in being Creeley, as in the poem ""Out'': ``Within pitiless/ indifference/ things left/ out.'' Or ``There'': ``On such a day/ did it happen/ by happy coincidence/ just here.'' Or ``H
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Robert Creeley, Author University of California Press $50 (366p) ISBN 978-0-520-06935-0
Creeley, poet laureate of New York State, constantly gauges what it means to be human, in poems that cope with the rush of memories, the chaos of dreams, the sudden flare of feelings. His mercurial verses on love and life's vicissitudes respond...
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Robert Creeley, Author, Archie Rand, Author, Archie Rand, Illustrator Granary Books $15.95 (100p) ISBN 978-1-887123-45-7
Experimenting in the ""fantastic traffic of narratives,"" esteemed poet Robert Creeley (Windows) and artist Archie Rand collaborated on the making of Drawn & Quartered. For one day Creeley, undertook a somewhat improvisational, chance-based ...
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Robert Creeley, Author, Susan Landers, Author O Books $12 (88p) ISBN 978-1-882022-50-2
To imagine a very, very angry Gertrude Stein hopped up on amphetamine (and Prozac) writing with the laser-like, short-lined, terceted clarity of Robert Creeley and a child's fury at truly horrific parenting that haunts one into adulthood is to...
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