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Robert Creeley. Once known primarily for his association with the group called the “Black Mountain Poets,” at the time of his death in 2005, Robert Creeley was widely recognized as one of the most important and influential American poets of the 20th century. His poetry is noted for both its concision and emotional power.
Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) [1] was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn.
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Creeley served as New York state poet laureate from 1989 to 1991 and as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and Humanities at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999. On March 30, 2005, Robert Creeley died at the age of seventy-eight. Year. Title.
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For over half a century, Robert Creeley (1926-2005) explored the possibilities of a minimalist approach to the American idiom as inventively as any poet since William Carlos Williams. In the late fifties and throughout the sixties, while he was still honing his avant-garde aesthetic and distinctive lyric style, the young Creeley was a prolific ...
4 days ago · Robert Creeley (born May 21, 1926, Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died March 30, 2005, Odessa, Texas) was an American poet and founder of the Black Mountain movement of the 1950s ( see Black Mountain poet s). Creeley dropped out of Harvard University in the last semester of his senior year and spent a year driving a truck in India and Burma ...
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Oct 26, 2023 · Robert White Creeley (b. 1926–d. 2005) was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, to Genevieve and Oscar Creeley. Creeley’s early life was marked by tragedy, as the poet suffered both the loss of his left eye in an automobile accident and the loss of his father by age five, after which he was raised by his mother along with his sister, Helen.
For anyone who, like Creeley, can claim to be ‘frankly and selfishly interested in the word,’ this book is a site of memorable delight.”—Forrest Gander “In this friendly and excellent volume, each essay makes a particularized, rather than a paradigmatic, reading of aspects of Robert Creeley’s work.
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