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	New York State Writers Institute - Robert Creeley
		Robert White Creeley, poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor, and teacher was born in Arlington, Massachusetts.
		Creeley was one of the originators of the "Black Mountain" school of poetry, along with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov.
		Robert Creeley has been a major influence on younger writers and an important, often startling voice in American literature.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/creeley.html (557 words)

	Robert Creeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 - March 30, 2005) was an American poet, author of more than sixty books, and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's.
		Despite these obviously formal elements various critics continue to insist that Creeley wrote in "free verse," but most of his forms were strict enough so that it is a question whether it can even be maintained that he wrote in forms of prose.
		In Hoffman's opinion, "Creeley has never included ideas, or commitments to social issues, in the repertoire of his work; his stripped-down poems have been, as it were, a proving of Pound's belief in 'technique as the test of a man's sincerity.'" (p.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Creeley (1686 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Robert Creeley
		Robert Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1926.
		In a review of Life and Death, Forrest Gander writes: "Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind's concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed...
		Creeley's honors include the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/184 (466 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Robert Creeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The speaker in Robert Creeley’s poetry is most often intent and even overwrought, relentless, uncertain but always seeking, confident in his uncertainty rather than reliant on previous certainties, interested in approaches to complexity and tensions rather than momentary resolutions.
		Creeley’s father died when he was just four years old and he grew up on a small farm in West Acton where his mother worked as a public health nurse.
		Creeley takes a plain view of many things, as we are reminded in his lines on “The Puritan Ethos” - “Happy the man who loves what / he has and worked for it also”.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1067 (573 words)

	Robert Creeley's Life and Career
		Robert Creeley's work within the same conceptual framework led to radically different results, for Creeley's field of consciousness is focused, restricted to a particular incident or meditation, and the force of emotion which infuses his most powerful work seems absent in Olson.
		Creeley felt cut off from "the society as it then was." "Return," written during the winter of 1945, was the first of his poems to be published.
		For Creeley, the jazz clubs around Boston provided another altemative to "society as it then was": "This was the time of the whole cult of the hipster" and Charlie Parker was "the hero of that possibility."The form of Parker's improvisational compositions derived from the unique flux of the immediately felt experience which prompted the music.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm (5078 words)

	Boston.com / News / Education / Higher education / Robert Creeley, 78, poet, leader of literary avant-garde
		Robert Creeley, one of America's most celebrated poets and for more than half a century a leading figure in the literary avant-garde, died yesterday in Odessa, Texas, of complications from lung disease.
		Creeley once said, ''form is never more than the expression of content." Yet a central paradox defined his work: For all that he wrote in a minimalist style, his great subject was the most maximal of human emotions, love and the complications that arise from it.
		Creeley later taught at the University of British Columbia, San Francisco State University, and, for a quarter century, at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
	www.boston.com /news/education/higher/articles/2005/03/31/robert_creeley_78_poet_leader_of_literary_avant_garde (780 words)

	Poetry Previews: Robert Creeley
		To approach the world that Creeley creates through his work, the reader must understand what Creeley commits to the page: a pact, the alluring significance beneath his words, and the energy of intent that is transferred within his poems—which are often personal, and which often contain the weak as well as the powerful.
		Creeley uses the word "syntax" here as a metaphorical vehicle through which he draws a parallel between the joining of words/syntax—the construction of a sentence—and the joining of men and women in love.
		I think Creeley means that poetry does not necessarily have to recall a specific narrative event, that—even for the poet—what is composed within the poem is something that "exists" as a monument/artifact of or "through itself." The words that comprise the poem are no more and yet no less significant than the poem itself.
	www.poetrypreviews.com /poets/poet-creeley.html (3825 words)

	Creeley, Robert on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"In thicket": Charles Olson, Frances Boldereff, Robert Creeley and the crisis of masculini...
		Creeley's poems have an effect of purity and elegance, with their combination of emotional directness and reticence, their conversational tone, brevity of development, and spare lyricism.
		Awake to particulars: the prose of Robert Creeley.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Creeley.asp (407 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Robert Creeley
		To Creeley, Olson was "the last of Black Mountain's defining persons", who wanted "to have the human be again a freshness, not merely an echo of whatever it might once have been".
		This reads as a primer for Creeley's writing, which he carried into later collaborations with the painters Jim Dine, RB Kitaj and Robert Indiana, the sculptor John Chamberlain and the jazz musicians Steve Lacy and Steve Swallow - work that he believed to be among his best.
		Creeley settled in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he married Bobby Louise Hawkins, with whom he had two daughters, taught at a boys' school and studied for an MA in 1960.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,1452304,00.html (1056 words)

	NZEPC - authors - Robert Creeley’s NZ
		Creeley's 1995 teaching residence as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Auckland renewed links with poet friends at a time when the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo was establishing itself as a primary international resource for experimental American poetry.
		Creeley's founding role in the EPC project, itself an outgrowth of the graduate Poetics Program at Buffalo, was a logical extension of his tireless commitment to the 'locating company' of innovative poets and poetics.
		Robert Creeley has taken an active and generous interest in the development of the nzepc and it is with great pleasure that we feature his New Zealand connections on the site and announce affiliation with Buffalo's EPC.
	www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz /authors/creeley/index.asp (437 words)

	Kelly Writers House Fellows - Robert Creeley
		Robert Creeley interview/conversation - A recording of the April 11, 2000 audiocast of the interview and conversation with Robert Creeley, moderated by
		Robert Creeley is among the most accomplished and most influential living poets.
		Edward Dorn praised Creeley as "the master of immediate speech," while Allen Ginsberg revered Creeley's "syllable by syllable intelligence." Robert Creeley held the Poetics Chair at SUNY Buffalo, prior to Charles Bernstein.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~whfellow/creeley.html (249 words)

	Jacket 26 — October 2004 — Robert Adamson on Robert Creeley, 1926–2005
		Robert Creeley’s reach across time and space was generous, and he touched lives from one side of the planet to the other.
		Robert Creeley, who has died at 78 from pneumonia and complications from lung disease in Odessa, Texas, was one of the major American poets of the 20th century.
		For Creeley, the thing was to create a new aesthetic where poetry could operate in an open field; "form is never more than an expression of content and content never more than an expression of form," he said.
	jacketmagazine.com /26/adam-creeley.html (2230 words)

	Robert Creeley: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Robert White Creeley, poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor, and teacher was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1926.
		Robert Creeley was one of the originators of the "Black Mountain" school of poetry, along with Charles Olsen, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov.
		He was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1987 and received a Distinguished Fulbright Fellowship to serve as the Bicentennial chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, for 1988-89, and another Fulbright for the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1995.
	www.diacenter.org /prg/poetry/87_88/creeleybio.html (297 words)

	Robert Creeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Robert Creeley (May 21, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Robert duncan (january 7, 1919 - february 3, 1988), was an american poet associated with the fl mountain poets and the beat generation....
		It was hard for many readers and critics to understand Creeley's reputation as an innovative poet; even harder for some to imagine that his work lived up to the Black Mountain tenet -- which he is supposed to have articulated, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_creeley.htm (2742 words)

	Robert Creeley (1926-2005) \| MetaFilter
		Creeley was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.) His wife of twenty-eight years, Penelope, and son Will and daughter Hannah were at his side.
		Creeley was often cited as a pioneer by the so-called language poets, and his most creatively generative friendship was with another poet's poet, the late Charles Olson.
		Robert Creeley was of my father's generation, and I see that he lived a full life and produced an enormous body of work that will inspire folks for generations to come.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/40831 (1997 words)

	Robert Creeley - The Cortland Review
		Robert Creeley: First were the poems that either were wild, melodramatic tales, like Alfred Noyes' "The Highwayman," or were simply fun, like James Whitcomb Riley's "Little Orphan Annie." In some real way I am leery of that emphasis "great poetry" because I haven't the least idea whether these poems were such, either then or now.
		Robert Creeley: Williams says he'd rather go off and die like a sick dog than be a well-known literary person in America.
		Robert Creeley: Williams puts it best in Paterson: "Because it's there to be written...." If one only wrote "good" poems, what a dreary world it would be.
	www.cortlandreview.com /creeley.htm (1231 words)

	Robert Creeley, Distinguished American Poet, UB Professor for 37 Years, Dies in Texas - UB NewsCenter
		Creeley was an originator of the "Black Mountain" school of poetry, named after the North Carolina college from which he held a bachelor's degree and where he once taught with poets Charles Olson and Robert Duncan, both of whom also had lasting relationships with UB.
		Creeley wrote more than 60 books of poetry and criticism and is known as well for the diversity of his collaborations with artists outside of his own authority.
		Creeley was a generous and active member of the Western New York literary community, deeply involved with local literary efforts, particularly the Just Buffalo Literary Center, as well as CEPA Gallery, Hallwalls and other institutions for which he often held benefit readings.
	www.buffalo.edu /news/fast-execute.cgi/article-page.html?article=72130009 (766 words)

	Robert Creeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Though his words are clear and direct, his syntax can often swing wide, allowing those words to move through a poem like the brush strokes of an Impressionist painting, shaded by their proximity to other words and forming a whole image only in the closing line.
		Creeley will read his poems in Providence next week (March 31) as part of the New Directions Festival.
		Q: You quote Robert Duncan as saying that poetry is not some ultimate preserve for the most rarified and articulate of human utterances, but has a place for all speech and all occasions thereof.
	www.providencephoenix.com /archive/books/98/03/26/CREELEY.html (1795 words)

	Robert Creeley : Keele University : American Studies
		Robert Creeley was born in Massachusetts in 1926 and graduated from Black Mountain College where he befriended Charles Olson and edited The Black Mountain Review.
		Creeley has lived in Guatemala, Finland, France and Spain, and served with the American Field Service in India and Burma.
		In October 1995 Robert Creeley gave a reading of his poetry to the Six Towns Poetry Festival (Barracks Studios, Newcastle - under - Lyme), followed by a paper at Keele on the poetry scene in America from the 1950's to 1990's.
	www.keele.ac.uk /depts/as/Portraits/creeley.html (365 words)

	Poet Robert Creeley to read in University’s Poem Present Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Creeley, the Samuel P. Capen professor of poetry and humanities at the State University of New York, Buffalo, has published over 60 books of poetry in the United States and abroad.
		Creeley, who corresponded with Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams beginning in 1949, helped to create a movement in postwar poetry that challenged the literary establishment.
		Creeley’s honors include the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Rockefeller Foundation grant and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation.
	www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/04/040326.creeley.shtml (198 words)

	notes
		A Robert Creeley essay tends to take the form of a collage rather than of a personal statement; he returns again and again to particular formulations by writers he loves and keeps them in dialogue with one another, making his own points by locating himself within a particular company.
		I suspect that a young poet in the present era who turns to the work of Robert Creeley might well have a similar experience – wondering what all of the fuss is about because so many of the innovations and stylistic discoveries he made have been incorporated by subsequent generations.
		Robert Creeley sought new measures that would accord with the generosity of spirit in which he endeavored to reside.
	tomraworth.com /dcreeley.html (7730 words)

	Robert Creeley at the Blue Neon Alley
		Robert Creeley lecture on eco-poetics, part 1, June, 1997.
		Robert Creeley lecture on language poetry, July, 1984.
		Robert Creeley lecture on the imagination of procedure - Part 2 July 4th, 1986
	www.neonalley.org /creeley.html (315 words)

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		The importance of Bob Creeley for writers in New Zealand is inestimable — many who had their sense of writing changed forever by his poems in the 60s, by his readings in 1976, his teaching Auckland University in 1995, and by many acts of generosity and friendship.
		Creeley told a lot of stories about the war, remembered flying in a military transport: "men, lads, boys— the whole trip sitting tidily in their seats in a Sterling bomber." The war was on in Kosovo and there was a constant argument about poetry's agency.
		Robert Creeley: This is an homage, not an homage in the dull sense, but both a respect and an echo of John Taggart's extraordinary means of writing.
	www.conjunctions.com /creeleytribute.htm (15453 words)

	SULAIR: AmLitStudies: Robert Creeley Papers
		American poet, novelist, short story writer, editor, and essayist, Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1926, and attended Harvard before receiving degrees from Black Mountain College and the University of New Mexico.
		Creeley taught at the University of New Mexico, the State University of New York in Buffalo, and Brown University.
		Also important is Creeley's business correspondence, which includes letters to him from his editors and publishers, royalty statements, correspondence about readings and lectures, the tapes and corrected transcripts of interviews as well as the production materials for his books- the designer layouts, galleys, and page proofs that trace the text's literal manufacture.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/ablit/amerlit/creeley.html (712 words)

	Robert Creeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For the past half century, Robert Creeley has been one of America's most prominent and celebrated poets.
		Creeley's voice was rather different from the dominant poetic idiom of that time, the breathless, gregarious, effusive, bebop-inspired "Beat" style which traced its stylistic ancestry back to Walt Whitman and was practiced in New York and San Francisco by the likes of Allen Ginsburg and Gregory Corso.
		Instead, Creeley, along with the other Black Mountain poets, crafted a graceful, economical poetic vocabulary sometimes referred to as "minimalism," which was more indebted to the pared-down approach of early 20th Century American masters like William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/robertcreeley.html (267 words)

	Robert Creeley (b. 1926)
		According to Creeley, "drive" is said not by the friend but by the speaker.
		The resultant stammer--quite unlike the effect of Williams's reading--is integral to Creeley's style, which involves a pervasive sense of wryly humorous or painful groping for the next line.
		William Carlos Williams told Robert Creeley, "You have the subtlest feeling for the measure I have encountered anywhere except in the verses of Ezra Pound." For Creeley's relation to Williams, see his essays in A Quick Graph and Paul Mariani, "Robert Creeley," in A Usable Past (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984).
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/creeley.html (540 words)

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