Robert Creeley : a biography / Ekbert Faas ; with Maria Trombacco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faas, Ekbert, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005.

Creeley, Robert.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (540 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this biography Ekbert Faas pioneers a new kind of "life-writing." It tells its stories through the emotions, thoughts, and, above all, language of the dramatis personae, exchanging the authorial omniscience of traditional biography for an utter fidelity to sources. Allowing for contradictory viewpoints, anecdotes are told and re-told, letting Creeley reveal himself beneath the myths created by self-invention, wishful thinking, and, sometimes, distortion. Excerpts from autobiographical writings by the poet's first wife, Ann McKinnon, complete this intriguingly colourful and complex picture.

Contents:

Intro; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 Childhood; 2 School; 3 Harvard, 1943-44; 4 Sex; 5 American Field Service, 1944-45; 6 Harvard, 1946-47; 7 Marriage; 8 The Emerging Writer and Publicist; 9 Charles Olson; 10 Origin; 11 Going to Europe; 12 "For Rainer Gerhardt"; 13 Lambesc, 1952; 14 Majorca, 1952-53; 15 The Island; 16 Black Mountain Review; 17 Black Mountain, 1954; 18 The Tarnished Lover; 19 Majorca, 1954-55; 20 The Misogynists; 21 Black Mountain, 1955-56; 22 Albuquerque, 1956; 23 San Francisco, 1956; 24 The Creeley Formula; 25 The Midsummer Night's Mare

26 The Schoolteacher27 Bobbie; 28 In Limbo; 29 Guatemala, 1959-60; 30 Guatemala, 1960-61; 31 New Mexico, 1961-62; 32 Canada, 1962-63; 33 Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963; 34 Anger; 35 The Unsuccessful Husband; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX: EXCEPTS FROM ANN MACKINNON'S MEMOIRS AND FROM HER 1944 DIARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

"Including excerpts form the memoirs and 1944 diary of the poet's first wife, Ann MacKinnon".

Includes bibliographical references: p. 429-436.

ISBN:

1-282-85924-2

9786612859243

0-7735-6912-X

OCLC:

923232799