The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005

by Robert Creeley

This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from A Journal (1978) to Life & Death (1998) and If I were writing this (2003). Robert Creeley, who was involved with the publication of this volume before his death in 2005, helped define an emerging counter-tradition to the prevailing literary establishment—the new postwar poetry originating with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky and expanding through the lives and works of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, and others.

The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005 will stand together with The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2000 as essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century American poetry.

Genres: Poetry, The United States Of America

677 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at State University of New York at Buffalo, and lived in Waldoboro, Maine, Buffalo, New York and Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught at Brown University. He was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, and was much beloved as a generous presence in many poets' lives.

Reviews

[Online Stig · Rating 4 out of 5]

En bit in i boken slutade jag läsa de lite längre dikterna och körde på med kortisarna. Man får göra så, särskilt när kortisarna var de enda som var något att ha. Här är min favorit:

Push that little
thing up and the
other right down.
It’ll work.

[Tiffany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Robert Creeley taught me a new way of hearing a poem. For him: gratitude.

[v v · Rating 5 out of 5]

Again, I'm guilty of carrying this large-large collection around in my (just as large) bag.
Creeley was a prolific writer in his time. There's a story: His collection called, Parts, was distributed to soldiers stationed during the war. They soon discovered it was a book of poems, not about mechanical parts.
Why read Creeley: I said so. http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/...

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was just released and it gathers together all Creeley's later work. It's a great addition to the first collected poems (1945-1975) and they both form an incredible and yet somehow modest body of work from one of this country's great poets.

[Adam]

whose work got me (really) into poetry

[Phil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Your Creeley collection is not complete without this. One of the most influential poets of our era.

[DW]

Excerpt from One: Histoire de Florida

In pajamas still / late morning sun's at my back / again through the window, / figuring mind still, figuring place / I am in, which is me / solipsistic, a loop yet moving, moving [...]