The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (Paperback)

by Robert Creeley (Author)

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An awesome achievement. -- World Literature Today

Rejoice in this vital collection. -- The State

The People
Epitaph (6)
The
A
1971
3 In 1
The Act Of Love
After Lorca
After Mallarme
Again
Again
Agh -- Man %thinks
Air: Cat Bird Singing
Air: The Loe Of A Woman
Air: The Love Of A Woman
Alba
Alice
All Around
All That Is Lovely In Men
All The Fantasies That
All This Flesh, Meat
And
Anger
The Animal
The Answer
Anywhere
The Apology
Apple Uppfle
As Now It Would Be Snow
As Real As Thinking
As We Sit
As You Come
The Awakening; For Charles Olsen
Away
B --
Backwards
The Ball Game
A Ballad
Ballad Of The Despairing Husband
The Bed
The Bedpost Is An
Berlin: First Night & Early Morning
Billfold
The Bird
The Bird, The Bird, The Bird
The Birds
A Birthday
Blue
Bobbie
Bolinas And Me
The Box
The Boy
Bringing You Back Here
Broken Back Blues
The Business
But
But
But You
Canada
The Cantos
Canzone
The Car %moving
The Carnival
The Chance
Change; For Ted Berrigan
The Changes
Chanson
Characteristically
The Charm
Chicago
Christmas: May 10, 1970
Circle
Citizen
The City
Colors
Comfort
Concrete Blocks Painted An 'off White'
The Conspiracy
Continuing Forward With A Trembling
Could Write Of Fucking
A Counterpoint
The Cracks
The Crisis
The Crow
Curse
Damon & Pythias
Dancing
The Day Comes And Goes
The Day Was Gathered On Waking
Days And Days
Days In The Train
Days Later -- Neither Having
Dead In The Year --
Dear Dorothy
The Death Of Venus
The Death Of
Delight Dances
Dicky The Stick
Diction
Dimensions
The Disappointment
The Dishonest Mailmen
Distance
Divisions
Do You Think
Don't Sign Anything
The Door
The Door
Down Home
The Dream
The Dream
Dreams
Dreary, Heavy
The Drums
Dying
The Ear
Easter
Echo
Echo
Echo
Echoes
The Edge
The End
The End Of The Day
Enough
Entre Nous
Envoi
The Epic Expands
Epigraph
Eros
The Europeans
Every Day
The Eye
The Eye
Fall
Falling
Falling Downhill
The Family
Fancy
Fantasies %indulged, Great
The Farm
The Festival
The Figures
Fine China
The Finger
Fire
The Fire
The First %time Is
Flesh
The Flower
The Flower
Flowers
A Folk Song
Follow The Drinking Gourd
For A Bus On Its Side And The Man Inside It
For A Friend
For A Friend
For A Screaming Lady
For Allen
For An Anniversary
For Anybody
For Arthur Okamura
For Benny And Sabina
For Betsy And Tom
For Chuck Hinman
For Days Neglected
For Ebbe
For Fear
For Friendship
For Helen
For Irving
For Joel
For Leslie
For Lewis, To Say It
For Love
For Marisol
For Martin
For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley
For Rainer Gerhardt
For Some Weeks
For Somebody's Marriage
For The Graduation
For The Graduation (bolinas, 1973)
For The Graduation: Bolinas, 1972
For The New Year
For Tom
For W.c.w.
For W.c.w.
For Walter Chappell
For You
A Form Of Adaptation
A Form Of Women
Forms' Passage As
Four
A Fragment
Fragments
The Friend
The Friends
From Pico And The Women: A Life
Funny
Gangster
Gemini
The Gesture
Get It Anyway
The Gift
A Gift Of Great Value
Going
Going To Bed
Goodbye
Greendoon's Song
Guido, I' Vorrei Che Tu E Lapo Ed Io
The Hands
Happy Love, This
The Happy Man
Harry
Hart Crane
Hart Crane 2
Having To
Heaven (1)
Helas
Hello
The Herd
Here
Here
Here
Here
Here
Here Again
The Hero
Hero
Hey
Hi There!
The Hole
Home
The House
How Far One Has Come
How That Fact Of
How Wise Age Is
Hunger
I
I Am Held By My Fear Of Death
I Can't
I Cannot See You
I Don't Hate You Lately
I Keep To Myself Such Measures
I Know A Man
I Was Never So Upset
Ice Cream
If You
An Illness
The Immoral Proposition
In A Boat Shed
In An Act Of Pity
In London
In Secret %the Out's In
In The %mouth -- A %hand
In The Fall
Indians
The Innocence
Insistent %this Yearning
Intervals
The Interview
The Invitation
The Invoice
Irish
An Irishman's Lament On The Approaching Winter
It Is At Times
It Is Funny -- Strange -- To See The Young
Jack's Blues
Je Vois Dans Le Hasard Tous Les Biens Que J'espere
The Joke
Juggler's Thought
June 6, 1970
Just Friends
Kate's
The Kick %of The Foot Against
The Kid
Kid
Kiki
The Kind Of Act Of
Kitchen
Knokke
Kore
La Noche
Lady Bird
Lady In Black
The Language
The Last Sweet Night
The Late Comer
Laughing
Le Fou
Let Something Else Be
Like A Man Committed To Searching
Like They Say
The Lion And The Dog
Listless %the Heat Rises
Little Time -- And Place
Littleton, N.h
Look
Looking Out
A Loop
Los Guitaristas
Love
Love (1)
Love (2)
Love -- %let It %out
Love Comes Quietly
Love's Faint Trace
The Lover
The Man
A Marriage
Mary's Fancy
Massachusetts
Master Of All
Mazatlan: Sea
The Measure
The Mechanic
Medallion
The Memory
The Menu
The Message
The Messengers
A Method
The Method Of Actuality
Midnight
Mind's Heart
The Mirror
Mobile Homes
Moment
The Moon
The Mountains In The Desert
Mouths Nuzz
My Love
The Name
The Names
Names
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Naughty Boy
Neither Sadness Nor Desire
New Year's
The News
Night
Night In Nyc
A Night Sky
No
No Clouds Out The Window
Not Again
Not Now
Note Read Re %letter Of Lawrence's
Now Then
Now There Is
Numbers: Eight
Numbers: Five
Numbers: Four
Numbers: Nine
Numbers: One
Numbers: Seven
Numbers: Six
Numbers: The Fool
Numbers: Three
Numbers: Two
Numbers: Zero
Nyc
An Obscene Poem
Of Years
Oh Mabel
Oh My Love
Oh No
Oh, Love -
Old Song
On Acid
On Vacation
One Day
One Thing %done
One Way
One/ The Sun
The Operation
Out
Out Of Sight
P.s.
Pacing As With Some Consequent
The Paradox
The Passage
The Pattern
Pay
Peace
The Pedigree
The Pen %the Lines It
The Penitent
The People
People
People Without Their Own Scene
Person
Persons
Phone
Photo
The Picnic
A Picture
A Piece
Pieces Of Cake Crumbling
The Place
A Place
Place
Place
Place
Places
The Plan
The Plan Is The Body
Please
Pleasures Of Pain
A Poem
Poem For Beginners
Poem For Bob Leed
Poem For D.h. Lawrence
The Pool
Post Cards
A Prayer
The Prejudice
The Problem
The Province
The Puritan Ethos
The Question
Quick Talk %their Speech
Quick-step
The Rain
Rain
Rain (2)
Re C --
A Reason
The Rescue
Return
The Revelation
The Rhyme
The Rhythm
The Riddle
Rippling Eyelids
The Rites
Roads
The Rocks
The Rose
The Saints
Same
Sanine To Leda
Saturday Afternoon
The Sea
Sea
The Sentence
The Shame
She Went To Stay
Shot
Sick
A Sight
Sign
The Signboard
Sing Song
Sitting Here
Sitting Up To Fill Pages Having Written The Poem
Situation Of Feeling Increasingly 'apart' From People
The Skeleton
Sleep
Smell Of Gum Wrappers As Of Saturday Afternoon At Movies
The Smell Of Stale Air
Smoke
The Snow
So Big
So Sweet %the Body
So Tired
The So-called Poet Of Love
Some Afternoon
Some Echoes
Some Nights, A Fearful
Some Place
Somebody Died
Something
Something For Easter
Somewhere
A Song
Song
Song
The Song
Song
Song
Song
Song
Song
Song
Song
Sopa
Sound
Sounds
Soup
The Souvenir
Spring
The Statue
A Step
Still
Still Life Or
Stomping With Catullus
The Story
Such Strangeness Of Mind I Know
Sunset
The Surf: An Elegy
Surgeons
Sweet, Sad
Swinging Down Central
A Tally
The Teachings
The Temper
A Testament
Than I
Thank You
That Day %in An Oak Tree
There
There
There Is
There Is A Space
They
They
They (2)
They Say
Think
Thinking
Thinking
The Three Ladies
The Tiger
The Time
Time
Time
Time Is Some Sort Of Hindsight
Time To Go
A Tiny Place
To And
To Bobbie
To The One In The Gray Coat
To Work Is To Contadict Contradictions, To Do Violence
A Token
The Trap
The Traveller
Trees
Trees
The Tunnel
The Turn
Two
Two
Two Times
Two Ways Of Looking In A Mirror
Up In The Air
A Variation
Variations
Wait For Me
Waiting
Walking
Walking The Dog
A Wall
The Wall %one's Up Against
Walls
Wanting You
The Warning
Was
Water
Water (2)
Water Music
The Way
Way
We'll Die %soon Enough
What %do You Think It Is
What Is Love -
What She Says She Wants
What's For Dinner
What's To Be Said
When He And I
Where We Are There Must
The Which It %was
The Whip
Why Say To Them
A Wicker Basket
The Wife
The Wind
The Window
The Window
Wisdom
A Wish
The Woman
The Woman
The Women
Words
Words %are %pleasure
The World
Would Dying Be Here
Xmas
Xmas Poem: Bolinas
Yellow
You
You Think In The Circle
You've Tried The World, Try Jesus
Young Woman
The Beautiful Slave
Lips And Eyes
The Hill
Hardware
Honky-tonk
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

This beautifully produced book contains almost 700 pages of Robert Creeleys verse. . . . [Creeley] is a master, one of the handful at work in America in any art. -- Oakland Tribune --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"The subtlest feeling for the measure that I encounter anywhere except in the verses of Ezra Pound."--William Carlos Williams

"It is a study, how Creeley lands syntax down the alley, and his vocabulary--pure English--to hit meters and rhymes all of which are spares and strikes."--Charles Olson

"Robert Creeley's poetry is as basic and necessary as the air we breathe; as hospitable, plain and open as our continent itself."--John Ashbery

"Robert Creeley has created a noble body of poetry that extends the work of his predecessors Pound, Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson, and provides like them a method for his successors in exploring our new American poetic consciousness."--Allen Ginsberg

"Creeley is a touchstone for me-a measure of what poetry is. He is a genius of the sensorium as Kerouac was and a master of the ear as is Miles Davis. He is a carver in space like Van Gogh."--Michael McClure --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press (March 25, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520042441
• ISBN-13: 978-0520042445
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Robert Creeley will one your eyes, September 1, 2005

By	John Miller (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (Hardcover)

Out of all of my books it is the only one that for over 15 years I have read something from everyday.
I think the sign of a good book is one that you can open randomly and always be turned around by the words before you.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Line Breaks, March 25, 2001

By	"katejohns" (Azalea Garden (The Thames)) - See all my reviews

these poems and the silence surrounding them are uncanny. I know no other word for it. he makes ordinary statements sound interesting because of his uncanny phrasing and subtle line breaks. you can learn more about writing from an hour spent with creeley's work than with just about anyone else, except ashbery.

4.0 out of 5 stars an innovator , August 12, 2007

By	C. Fang "heloise83" (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (Paperback)

Using simple phrases and a lot of white space, Robert Creeley is a innovator of modern verse that suffuses mystery into the mundune. He is straightforward, spare, uses very few metaphors. He is an absolute master of measure, using the sound of the words and the pauses in between to create beautiful, haunting verse. It is difficult to be cerebral while reading his work, the poetry never explains or describe but is made to be experienced as a bodily phenomenon. It engages a quieter, deeper more subtle appreciation challenging for a modern readership used to instant gratifications.