"The subtlest feeling for the measure that I encounter anywhere except in the verses of Ezra Pound."--William Carlos Williams"It is a study, how Creeley lands syntax down the alley, and his vocabulary
"The subtlest feeling for the measure that I encounter anywhere except in the verses of Ezra Pound."--William Carlos Williams"It is a study, how Creeley lands syntax down the alley, and his vocabulary
"On Earth provides a kind of closure on a rich poetic life and brings us intimately in contact with the poet's final thoughts on the great themes of time and memory. Those of us who know Creeley may w
In 1999 Robert Creeley received the prestigious Bollingen Prize in Poetry and was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Both honors made specific notes of his experimental style, his
In his new collection of poems, Robert Creeley continues to explore the limits and resonances, public and personal, of age. Indeed, the title itself, Echoes, recurs throughout his poetry of the last t