If I Were Writing This

If I Were Writing This
Author: Robert Creeley
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2008-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811217569

New poetry from the winner of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Before Columbus Fdtn., and a Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.

Form, Power, and Person in Robert Creeley’s Life and Work

Form, Power, and Person in Robert Creeley’s Life and Work
Author: Stephen Fredman
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2010-03-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1587298597

By any measure—international reputation, influence upon fellow writers and later generations, number of books published, scholarly and critical attention—Robert Creeley (1926–2005) is a literary giant, an outstanding, irreplaceable poet. For many decades readers have remarked upon the almost harrowing emotional nakedness of Creeley’s writing. In the years since his death, it may be that the disappearance of the writer allows that nakedness to be observed more readily and without embarrassment. Written by the foremost critics of his poetry, Form, Power, and Person in Robert Creeley’s Life and Work is the first book to treat Creeley’s career as a whole. Masterfully edited by Stephen Fredman and Steve McCaffery, the essays in this collection have been gathered into three parts. Those in “Form” consider a variety of characteristic formal qualities that differentiate Creeley from his contemporaries. In “Power,” writers reflect on the pressure exerted by emotions, gender issues, and politics in Creeley’s life and work. In “Person,” Creeley’s unique artistic and psychological project of constructing a person—reflected in his correspondence, teaching, interviews, collaborations, and meditations on the concept of experience—is excavated. While engaging these three major topics, the authors remain, as Creeley does, intent upon the ways such issues appear in language, for Creeley’s nakedness is most conspicuously displayed in his intimate relationship with words. Contributors Charles Altieri Rachel Blau DuPlessis Stephen Fredman Benjamin Friedlander Alan Golding Michael Davidson Steve McCaffery Peter Middleton Marjorie Perloff Peter Quartermain Libbie Rifkin

For Love

For Love
Author: Robert Creeley
Publisher: New York, Scribner
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1962
Genre: American poetry
ISBN:

Echoes

Echoes
Author: Robert Creeley
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811212632

In his new collection of poems, Robert Creeley continues to explore the limits and resonances, public and personal, of age. Indeed, the title itself, Echoes, recurs throughout his poetry of the last two decades. Thus "Sonnets" speaks out against the waste of human violence and dogmatism ("Come round again the banal/belligerence almost a/flatulent echo of times"), while the book's closing sequence, "Roman Sketchbook", contemplates with wit and affection the measure of one's literal body in echoing time and place. Creeley as ever articulates the givens of life, its daily fact and possibility, with careful, concise invention. What wind's echo, uplifted spirit? Archaic feelings flood the body. Ah! accomplished.

Life & Death

Life & Death
Author: Robert Creeley
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1998
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811214490

If youth asks the mirror, "Am I the fairest?" then age, in Robert Creeley's voice asks, "Do you remember me?" And the poems of Life & Death are the mirror's answers: a collage of recollection and salvage, a gathering-in before winter's night. The first section, "Histoire de Florida," is a partial autobiography at a specific time and place. It captures the poet in an engaged and highly compacted moment that deliberately echoes Wallace Stevens's "The Anecdote of the Jar"--A reverberation from the poet's youth. The second section, "Old Poems, Etc.," contains classic reflections - from the doggerel humor of "'Present (Present)'" to parody of early Metaphysical models like George Herbert in "Echo's Arrow." The capstone of this section is the sustained "The Dogs of Auckland," which focuses impressions from an extended time spent in that city and becomes a resume of age and its effects, made vividly objective by the contrasting culture of New Zealand. Artists have always proved decisive company for the poet, and the third section contains the texts of three collaborations with the painter Francesco Clemente.

Robert Creeley's Life and Work

Robert Creeley's Life and Work
Author: John Wilson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1987
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780472063741

A critical retrospective of Creeley's work from 1952 to 1982

En Famille

En Famille
Author: Robert Creeley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1999
Genre: Families
ISBN:

By Robert Creeley and Elsa Dorfman.

Hello

Hello
Author: Robert Creeley
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Poetry in English - American writers, 1945- - Texts
ISBN: 9780714526577

Charles Olson & Robert Creeley

Charles Olson & Robert Creeley
Author: Charles Olson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1980
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Letters written during the spring and summer of 1951 convey the artistic concerns of the two writers and share commentary on their poems and essays in progress.