Background
Creeley, Robert White was born on May 21, 1926 in Arlington, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Oscar Slade and Genevieve (Jules) Creeley.
( Robert Creely, Wilmington, N.C., June 29, 1981: The...)
Robert Creely, Wilmington, N.C., June 29, 1981: There is a sense of increment, of accumulation, in these poems that is very dear to me. Like it or not, it outwits whatever I then thought to say and gains thereby whatever I was in saying it. Thankfully, I was never what I thought I was, certainly never enough. Otherwise, when it came time to think specifically of this collection and of what might be decorously omitted, I decided to stick with my initial judgments, book by tender book, because these were the occasions most definitive of what the poems might mean, either to me or to anyone else. To define their value in hindsight would be to miss the factual life they had either made manifest or engendered. So everything that was printed in a book between the dates of 1945 and 1975 is here included as are also those poems published in magazines or broadsides. In short, all that was in print is here. I'm delighted that they are all finally together, respected, included, each with their place--like some ultimate family reunion! I feel much relieved to see them now as a company at last. I'm tempted to invoke again those poets who served as a measure and resource for me all my life as a poet. But either they will be heard here, in the words and rhythms themselves, or one will simply know the. This time I am, in this respect, alone these are my poems. We are a singular compact. Finally, there's no end to any of it, or none we'll know that simply. But I'm very relieved that this much, like they say, is done. So be it.
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("Robert Creeley has created a noble life body of poetry t...)
"Robert Creeley has created a noble life body of poetry that extends the work of predecessors Pound, Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson and that provides like them a method for his successors in exploring our new American poetic consciousness."—Allen Ginsberg If I were writing this was the last book of poems completed by Robert Creeley and published during his lifetime (New Directions, 2003). The words that he wrote to describe this book are oddly prophetic: "Age brings experience, not wisdom; age makes time actual—each day another—until there is no more. These poems have been my company, my solace, my feelings, my heart. When they cannot speak it will all be silence." Though Creeley died in 2005, his poems are not silent—they vibrantly continue to embrace life while acknowledging, with no self-pity, the inevitability of death. The message (as he always ended his letters) is "Onward!"
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(Three of Robert Creeley's collections—Memory Gardens, Win...)
Three of Robert Creeley's collections—Memory Gardens, Windows and Echoes (first time in paper)—together in a convenient paperback edition. Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 continues the consolidation of Robert Creeley's later work begun with So There: Poems 1976-1983 (1998). Just in Time combines Memory Gardens (1986), Windows (1990), and Echoes (1994) in a volume that further validates the Lifetime Achievement Award conferred on Creeley by the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000. The poet himself comments about his later work: "Much echoes in these poems from the the necessary 'voyage to oblivion' they prepare for, but they are fact of no simple despair. Each day stays specific, possible, each relation defining, whether of life or of death. As my longtime mentor, W.C. Williams, best put it, 'The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned...' One continues and learns despite."
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( Early in his career, Robert Creeley believed that his g...)
Early in his career, Robert Creeley believed that his greatest contribution 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--instilled with a deep understanding of language and narrative form--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.
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( Here, gathered together in one volume for the first tim...)
Here, gathered together in one volume for the first time, is the prose work of Robert Creeley, on of the major voices of post-World War II American literature. His writing again demonstrates the insistent and various explorations of the relationships which have become the hallmark of his singular accomplishment and genius. It contains THE GOLD DIGGERS,a collection of short stories, his novel, THE ISLAND, and MABEL: A STORY, as well as the volume LISTEN which he did as a radio play.
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(Poetry. E-mail Correspondence. "The DAY BOOK OF A VIRTUAL...)
Poetry. E-mail Correspondence. "The DAY BOOK OF A VIRTUAL POET" provides a unique entrance into the ideas and practices-into the life, finally-of one of our great writers"-Burt Kimmelman. This unique book is a record of e-mail letters from Robert Creeley to high school students participating in an online honors poetry course. It explores the educational possibilities of a medium that has become second nature to people across the generations. Creeley: "All the tendentious proposals as to 'why write,' in Pound's useful phrase, finally fade to the one point W.C. Williams made by saying, 'Why don't we tell them it's fun?' Not just the authority of endless revisions, not just the lists of publications or prizes won, not just the company of poets of public record - just fun. Fun. Fun."
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Creeley, Robert White was born on May 21, 1926 in Arlington, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Oscar Slade and Genevieve (Jules) Creeley.
Bachelor, Black Mountain College, 1954. Master of Arts, University New Mexico, 1960. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University New Mexico, 1993.
Instructor, Black Mountain College, 1954-1955;
visiting lecturer English, U. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1961-1962;
lecturer, U. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1963-1966;
visiting professor, U. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1968-1969, 78-80;
visiting professor, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1966-1967;
Professor of English, State University of New York, Buffalo, since 1967;
Gray professor poetry and letters, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1978-1989;
Capen professor poetry and humanities, State University of New York, Buffalo, since 1989;
director poetics program, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1991-1992. Lecturer U. B.C., Vancouver, 1961-1963. Lecturer creative writing San Francisco State College, 1970-1971.
Visiting professor State University of New York-Binghampton, spring 1985, 86. Bicentennial chair American studies, Fulbright award, U. Helsinki, Finland, 1988, Fulbright award University Auckland, New Zealand, 1995.
( This definitive collection showcases thirty years of wo...)
("Robert Creeley has created a noble life body of poetry t...)
( Here, gathered together in one volume for the first tim...)
(Three of Robert Creeley's collections—Memory Gardens, Win...)
( For nearly four decades, Robert Creeley has been a popu...)
( Early in his career, Robert Creeley believed that his g...)
( Five revealing interviews with an American poet whose s...)
(Limited edition of 200 copies.)
( Robert Creely, Wilmington, N.C., June 29, 1981: The...)
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(Poetry. E-mail Correspondence. "The DAY BOOK OF A VIRTUAL...)
With American Field Service, 1944-1945. Member American Academy of Arts and Letters, Academy American Poet (chancellor 1999-2002).
Married Ann MacKinnon, 1946 (divorced 1956). Children: David, Thomas, Charlotte. Married Bobbie Louise Hall, January 27, 1957 (divorced 1976).
Children: Kirsten, Leslie, Sarah, Katherine. Married Penelope Highton, 1977. Children: William, Hannah.