The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005 (Hardcover)

~ Robert Creeley (Author)

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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 There are nine books collected here in all, plus four previously unpublished poems.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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"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)
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