Life & Death [Hardcover]

Robert Creeley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1998

If youth asks the mirror, "Am I the fairest?" then age, in Robert Creeley's skillful, ironic, and tender voice asks, "Do you remember me?" And the poems of LIFE & DEATH are the mirror's answers--a collage of recollection and salvage, a gathering-in before winter's night.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Creeley's poems have always been to-the-point, but here they are scrubbed down to the essentials, as befits the theme: Creeley is a mature poet, looking back on life and considering what (little) might lie ahead. Intense, shadowed, and powerfully restrained, these poems are miniatures but hardly small. Creeley has packed them with tremendous vision.
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Review

Body
Breath
Credo
The Dogs Of Auckland
Echo
Echo's Arrow
Edges
Fearful Love
A Feeling
Four Days In Vermont
Given
Goodbye
Hand
Help
Histoire De Florida
In The Diamond
Inside My Head
Life & Death
The Long Road
Loop
Loops
The Mirror
Mitch
Oh My God
Old Poems
Old Story
Out Here
Pictures
Present (present)
The Rose
Sear At The Center
Signs
Silence
The Skull
The Star
The Swan
There
Thinking
The Tools
A Valentine For Pen
When It Comes
Won't It Be Fine?
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

There is [in Creeley's work] precisely a soulful tenacity, a hybrid between devotion and obsession, that keeps him a major poet. -- Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash

Product Details

• Hardcover: 86 pages
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation; First Edition edition (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811213846
• ISBN-13: 978-0811213844
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,211,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The concise conversationalist, June 5, 2005

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life & Death (Paperback)

William Carlos Williams seems to me the poet closest to Creeley, or the one Creeley is closest to. Small lines of ordinary speech and life which occasionally come more alive and striking. Creeley it seems to me presents a kind of stream- of- consciousness of what he sees now. He is famous for his line- breaks and knowing how to stop the sound and sight in the right place. What he feels and believes about life and love is perhaps given in the fact that he was known as the most congenial conversationalist of poets, and also one most generous to others. He loved the word ' home' and wrote in his last years much about the process of 'aging' .

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Er, well, good yes good, October 3, 2000

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Pianomover (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life & Death (Hardcover)

Quite like Creeley's/ older lines, but/ longer/ and more particular/ even in/ their ambiguity./ Now when/ he's not sure/ he's not/ so nervous./ Lovely really.

Actually I liked it./ Really like it./ Read it aloud/ over breakfast sometimes./