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by: Robert Creeley
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780520251960
ISBN: 0520251962
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: January 28, 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Sales Rank: 237781
Studio: University of California Press
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This new, compact Selected Poems offers for the first time a balanced survey of Robert Creeley's entire sixty years of poetic accomplishment. It showcases the works that made him one of the most beloved and significant writers of the past century while inviting a new recognition of his enduring commitments, fluency, and power.
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Rating: - Always new
Bob Creeley was perhaps the original beatnik, a quiet man who turned himself outward and in so doing made a great impression upon the world with his work and his persona. We should all know more about him -- his best poems (of his many fine ones) should be with us always.
Rating: - A mast poet of moments otherwise unnoticed
Creeley won me over early, in junior high, when my teacher at the time handed a well thumbed book of Mr. Creeley's poetry. From the first page I was caught up in a wonderful tangled world of poems constructed from small moments of happy introspection - given a kind of sincere reverence by Mr. Creeley's intense scrutiny of what even a small moment can mean; a drunken dinner, a ride in a Cadillac, a slice of apple pie topped with ice cream - these moments becomes a minor religious awakening in the ... Read More
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