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<p><B>Robert Creeley has created a noble life body of poetry that extends the work of predecessors Pound, Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson and that provides like them a method for his successors in exploring our new American poetic consciousness.&#151;Allen Ginsberg</B><BR><BR><I>If I were writing this</I> was the last book of poems completed by Robert Creeley and published during his lifetime (New Directions, 2003). The words that he wrote to describe this book are oddly prophetic&#58; Age brings experience, not wisdom; age makes time actual&#151;each day another&#151;until there is no more. These poems have been my company, my solace, my feelings, my heart. When they cannot speak it will all be silence. Though Creeley died in 2005, his poems are not silent&#151;they vibrantly continue to embrace life while acknowledging, with no self-pity, the inevitability of death. The message (as he always ended his letters) is Onward!</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Creeley won the Bolligen Prize in 1999, a Before Columbus Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, and a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001 following his magisterial, darkly nuanced last collection, Life & Death (1998). This book s

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Author

Creeley, Robert

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811215565

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.03 / 5 (60 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14