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by: Robert Creeley
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780520247918
ISBN: 0520247914
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 100
Publication Date: April 17, 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Sales Rank: 847648
Studio: University of California Press
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Robert Creeley, one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth-century, helped define an emerging counter-tradition to the prevailing literary establishment--a 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. When Robert Creeley died in March 2005, he was working on what was to be his final book of poetry. In addition to more than thirty new poems, many touching on the twin themes of memory and presence, this moving collection includes the text of the last paper Creeley gave--an essay exploring the late verse of Walt Whitman. Together, the essay and the poems are a retrospective on aging and the resilience of memory that includes tender elegies to old friends, the settling of old scores, and reflective poems on mortality and its influence on his craft. On Earth reminds us what has made Robert Creeley one of the most important and affectionately regarded poets of our time.
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Rating: - 'To be human has growing old at its end'
Robert Creeley died last year, an event he expected and understood as well as any poet ever has. This collection of his last writings is a treasure to those of us who fell under his inspiring and straightforward spell of writing: it is an apt epitaph to a man whose poems caressed the human condition and accepted death as a final stanza to life.
Creeley embraced Buddhism in its vision of the panoply of existence. His works reflect his need to address aging as part of living, the importance ... Read More
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