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by: Robert Creeley
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780520069367
ISBN: 0520069366
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 366
Publication Date: March 19, 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Sales Rank: 664538
Studio: University of California Press
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Here, in a new selection of 200 poems from five decades, is the distinctive voice of Robert Creeley, reminding us of what has made him one of the most important and affectionately regarded poets of our time.
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Rating: - Charles Olson: "finding out for himself"
"History was "'istorin," which Olson took from Herodotus and used not as a noun or concept, but, rather, as a verb, "to find out for yourself." ---Robert Creeley, from his preface.
Charles Olson is a poet of poignant searching. Throughout this volume, confidently compiled by Olson's longtime friend and correspondent, Robert Creeley, Olson seems to be finding out for himself what it is to be human. In the soliloquy poem, "Maximus, to himself" (taken from Olson's magnum opus, The Maximus ... Read More
Rating: - Essential, a quick look at a true genius
Charles Olson (1910-1970) was one of the most important American poets of the 20th Century. In this volume, Olson friend Robert Creeley has chosen most of the poems that I would have chosen for such a volume. He has included such works as "An Ode on Nativity" and "The Twist" which help celebrate the city of his birth and youth, Worcester MA. Creeley fairly evenly divides the book between choosing from The Collected Poems and The Maximus Poems. The only poem that is not in this excellent volume ... Read More
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