The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005 [Hardcover]

Robert Creeley (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0520241592 | ISBN-13: 978-0520241596 | Publication Date: October 23, 2006 | Edition: 1

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 Hello: 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.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Creeley, who died last year at nearly 80, was one of the great poets of the American 20th century. This collection brings together the books from the second half of his career, forming a companion to a volume covering 1945-1975. This book doesn't contain Creeley's breakout volume, For Love (1962), but it does have some magnificent poetry. There are elegiac poems throughout-the first poem from Later (1979), "Myself," begins "What, younger, felt/ was possible, now knows/ is not." There are nine books collected here in all, plus four previously unpublished poems. In a short note, Creeley's wife Penelope mentions that they had discussed his writing a preface for this book: "He had thought about what he wanted to say: 'These are my poems. I love them and stand by them.'" Readers will do the same over the course of the 21st century.
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Review

"Groundbreaking Poet Robert Creeley helped transform postwar American poetry by making it more conversational and emotionally direct." - Dinitia Smith, New York Times "[A] Black Mountain poet fired by an elemental energy.... Each work is a minutely detailed pressure point set into motion." - Michael Hrebeniak, The Guardian "Robert Creeley, one of the most significant American poets of our time, [was] a poet for whom pretentiousness was anathema. For Creeley, poetry was like music, and he never wasted a note." - Jeff Miers, The Buffalo News "Creeley was, to my mind, easily the finest poet of my parents' generation & truly the dean of American poets at least from the death of Williams until his own." - Ron Silliman, author of Under Albany"

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 677 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (October 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520241592
• ISBN-13: 978-0520241596
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,125,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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