The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley / Robert Creeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XV, 603 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1989]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

I HEROES/ELDERS

Introduction to Penguin Selected Whitman

Hart Crane and the Private Judgment

The Letters of Hart Crane, Edited by Brom Weber

A Note on Ezra Pound

Why Pound!?!

The Release

William Carlos Williams: Selected Essays

A Character for Love

The Fact

Foreword to The Manuscripts and Letters of William Carlos Williams, by Neil Baldwin and Steven L. Meyers

"paradise/our/speech . . ."

Louis Zukofsky: All: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1958

A Note

All Ears Hear Here

For L.Z.

A Personal Note

A Note on Basil Bunting

Basil Bunting

H. D.

Here

II THE COMPANY

Introduction to The New Writing in the USA

Charles Olson: Y & X

Charles Olson: In Cold Hell, in Thicket

Preface to Mayan Letters, by Charles Olson

Charles Olson: The Maximus Poems, 1—10

Olson & Others: Some Orts for the Sports

Some Notes on Olson's Maximus

Introduction to Charles Olson: Selected Writings I

Introduction to Charles Olson: Selected Writings II

"A Foot Is to Kick With"

"An Image of Man . . .": Working Notes on Charles Olson's Concept of Person

Charles Olson's Masterwork

"A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud"

"To disclose that vision particular to dreams"

Preface to Robert Duncan: A Descriptive Bibliography, by Robert J. Bertholf

"An intensely singular art"

Edward Dorn in the News

Edward Dorn's Geography

Preface to Selected Poems, by Edward Dorn

The New World

For Michael

Preface to Against the Silences, by Paul Blackburn

"How Is It Far If You Think It?"

III THE WRITING LIFE

Kenneth Patchen: Fables £s? Other Little Tales

A Note on Canadian Poetry

Canadian Poetry 1954

D. H. Lawrence: Studies in Classic American Literature

Witter Bynner: Journey with Genius

Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Guignol's Band & John Hawkes: The Goose on the Grave

"By God, Pomeroy, you here!"

Waiting for Godot

Ramón Sender: Two Novels

On Love

The Journals of Jean Cocteau

Kenneth Rexroth: In Defense of the Earth

Edward Dahlberg: The Sorrows of Priapus

Evergreen Review, Nos. 1 and 2

"To Build Castles in Spain"

"Her Service Is Perfect Freedom"

A New Testament

Ways of Looking

The Fascinating Bore

Preface to Sticks and Stones, by George Bowering

"Think what's got away..."

The Beat Voznesensky

Judson Crews

A Note for Thread and Fielding Dawson

A Note for Kenneth Irby

Frederick Eckman: The Epistemologa of Loss

A Note for These Poems...

Rainer Gerhardt: A Note

Introduction to Thongs, by Alex Trocchi

AM

Introduction to Krazy Katl The Unveiling & Other Stories, by Fielding Dawson

For Diane

Foreword to The Sterile Honeycomb, by Arthur Axelrod

Gee Gerry G...

Lew

A Note for Hilda Morley: A Blessing Outside Us

Foreword to Sojourner Microcosms, by Anselm Hollo

Introduction to The Manner Music, by Charles Reznikoff

Preface to Nolo Contendere, by Judson Crews

Preface to The Blind Receptionist and Other Poems, by Robert J. Richkin

Foreword to Running Grass: Poems 1970-1977, by Peter Levitt

Xmas as in Merry

Poetry of Commitment

First Prize

Ted Berrigan's Death

William Corbett: Two Books

No Matter What: A Note for Collected Poems, by William Corbett

An Afterword to Splendide-Hôtel, by Gilbert Sorrentino

The Gentle on the Mind Number

With Crusoe, on Familiar Shores

Kenneth Koch's Selected Poems, 1950-1982

Gone Fishing

From the Language Poets

A True Poet

Preface to The Leafless American, by Edward Dahlberg

Foreword to The Collected Poems of Marsden Hartley

Foreword to Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction, by Martin Espada

IV ARTISTS

On the Road: Notes on Artists 8c Poets, 1950-1965

Divers Sentiments

René Laubiès: An Introduction

A Note on Franz Kline

Philip Guston: A Note

Harry Callahan: A Note

Feedback: "Contemporary Voices in the Arts"

John Chamberlain

Frank Stella: A Way to Go

"Mehr Licht . .."

Ecce Homo

Three Films

Bill the King

"Some Place Enormously Moveable": The Collaboration of Arakawa and Madeline H. Gins

Introduction to Larry Bell: New Work

Memories of John

My New Mexico

Jim Dine/Five Themes

Face It

Seeing Things: Preface to Scopophilia, by Gerard Malanga

Foreword to The Poet Exposed, Portraits by Christopher Felver

V AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND POETICS

A Note on the Objective

Notes for a New Prose

How to Write a Novel

To Define

A Dilemma

A Note on the Local

A Quick Graph

"Statement" for the Paterson Society

Why Bother?

A Sense of Measure

"Poems are a complex"

A Statement about the Poem "The Name"

Notes Apropos "Free Verse"

"I'm given to write poems"

The Black Mountain Review

The Writer's Situation

Writing

On the New Cultural Conservatism

The Creative

Inside Out

Foreword to Robert Creeley: An Inventory, 1945—1970, by Mary Novik

Last Night

Was That a Real Poem or Did You Just Make It Up Yourself?

A Note for Hello

Letter from Berlin

Berlin, Etc.

Form

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783112658024

3112658027

OCLC:

1350570773