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Creeley, Robert

Creeley, Robert (White)

(1926–  ) poet, writer; born in Arlington, Mass. He studied at Harvard (1943–46), Black Mountain College (B.A. 1955), and the University of New Mexico (M.A. 1960). After extensive travel, he taught at New York State University: Buffalo (1966). Known for his poetry, as in Mirrors (1983), he also wrote criticism and fiction.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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A brilliant forthcoming book on the projectivist poets places Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, and Susan Howe into a sustained dialogue with Gilles Deleuze: see Miriam Nichols, Radical Affections: Essays on the Poetics of Outside (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010).
Creeley, Robert. The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley.
She came to know Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan and Charles Olson, and with them became associated with the Black Mountain School of poetry.
Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson are no longer "the Black Mountain poets" (were they ever?), and the publication of The Collected Poems affirms Ted Berrigan's identity, not as a belated follower or would-be member of a "school" but as, simply, an important and innovative American poet.
Creeley, Robert. "Austerities." Review of Contemporary Fiction 14.1 (1994): 35-39.
Other facult y during Wolpe's tenure included poets Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and (for the first two months) M.
Yet the international bent of Boxkite is - perhaps unsurprisingly - grounded in a distinctly Anglo-American sense of "ethno-poetics." Correspondingly, older poets associated with such cultural eclecticism are well represented here, including writing from Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Robert Kelly, Armand Schwerner, and Carl Rakosi.
While all three poets -- Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan -- are included in various Norton anthologies and while all three are currently in print in terms of "selected works" editions, it is not to be expected that students will come to Understanding the Black Mountain Poets with anything more than the barest acquaintance, if that, with their work.
The group grew up around the poets Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson while they were teaching at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
It is made up of many of the best innovators, experimenters and nonconformists of the past fifty years - Jackson Mac Low, Barbara Guest, Denise Levertov, Ashbery, Creeley, Robert Kelly, Clayton Eshleman Rosemarie Waldrop, Dennis Cooper an John Yau.
"Black Mountain Poetry: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, and Edward Dorn." A History of American Poetry: Contexts-Developments-Readings, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015, 275-296.
Creeley, Robert. The Collected Prose of Robert Creeley.
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