Windows [Hardcover]

Robert Creeley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1990

For Creeley, age and travel have served to highlight the foreignness of everyday circumstances, so that the window-passages between "inside" and "out" have become increasingly necessary for survival.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Creeley's ( Memory Gardens ) singular aesthetic vision remains strikingly evident as he continues to prod the boundaries of language and expression. Characteristically spare and tightly structured, these poems reflect the poet's concern with the relationship between speech and silence, and the circular, reflexive quality of time and human experience: "Recorders ages hence will look for us / . . . in some common places of feeling, / small enough--but isn't the human / just that echoing, resonant edge/of what it knows it knows. . . ." Creeley seeks a way of "seeing" beyond the "vacant" mirrors and "empty" reflections of "life's 'lifelike' reality"--"windows" that offer the possibility of new perspectives and perceptions. In fact, these carefully honed poems themselves function as "frames" through which Creeley measures with mature insight and inventiveness the limits of reality and existence: "Such small dimension / finally, the comfortable / end of it, . . . / . . . world shrunk / to some recollected / edge of where it used to be. . . ."
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Review

After Frost
After Pasternak
Age
All Wall
Better
Bienvenu
Black Grackle
Blue Moon
Broad Bay
Clouds
Common
The Company
Consolatio
Dialing For Dollars
Dreams
The Drunks Of Helsinki
Ears Idle Ears
Echo
Echo
Echoes
Echoes
Eight Plus
Epic
Ever Since Hitler...
Fading Light
Famous Last Words
First Love
Fleurs
Focus
Fools
For An Old Friend
For J. L
For The World That Exists
Funny
H's
Help
Helsinki Window
Here
Ho Ho
I Dreamt
I Would Have Known You Anywhere
If
Imporvisations
Interior
Just In Time
Klaus Reichert And Creeley Send Regards
Leaving
Life
Lights
March
Meat
Nationalgalerie Berlin
Nature Morte
New World
New Year's Resolution
Night
Not Much
Oh
Old Mister Moonlight
Picture
Place
Plague
Reading Of Emmanuel Levinas
Scales
The Seasons
Senator Blank Blank
Seven: A Suite For Robert Therrien
Sight
Small Time
So Much
Song
Sparks Street Echo
Spring Light
Stairway To Heaven
The Terribly Strange Bed
Thinking
Tree
Usa
Voice
Wall
Water
What
What
Whatever
Wheels
Window
Winter Night
The World
X
Xmas
You
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 152 pages
• Publisher: New Directions; First edition. edition (May 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811211223
• ISBN-13: 978-0811211222
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,135,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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