Collected Prose

by Robert Creeley

Early in his career, Robert Creeley believed that his greatest contributions to literature would be in prose. Although he has since established himself as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, his remarkable body of prose work remains an essential part of his oeuvre.

In addition to his first book of short stories The Gold Diggers, a novel The Island, a radio play Listen, and Mabel: A Story, this omnibus edition includes two previously uncollected stories.

Genres: Poetry, Short Stories, Fiction, Literature

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

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.