Selected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945&1502005 [Paperback]

This new, compactSelected Poemsoffers for the first time a balanced survey of Robert Creeley's entire sixty years of poetic accomplishment. It showcases the works that made him one of the most beloved and significant writers of the past century while inviting a new recognition of his enduring commitments, fluency, and power.

Robert Creeley(19262005) published more than sixty books of poetry, prose, essays, and interviews in the United States and abroad. His many honors included the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown University.
Benjamin Friedlanderis Associate Professor of English at the University of Maine, is author ofSimulcast: Four Experiments in Criticismamong other books. He coeditedThe Collected Prose of Charles Olson(UC Press) with Donald Allen.

Here is Creeley at his skillfully selected best: full of the melodies of plain speech, concise yet resonant with emotion. Juliana Spahr, author ofThis Connection of Everyone with Lungs

So fantastically simple and so satisfyingly complicated, these poems band together like the days in 'One Day': 'One day after another-/ perfect./ They all fit.' John Ashbery

Beautifully edited by Ben Friedlander with tenderness, intelligence, and care. A superb selection, well-introduced.Selected Poemsprovides a great sense of the range of Creeley's accomplishmentthese poems among the most important of our timea way of writing with the hesitations and grace of a new-found line, thinking informed by sources from Emily Dickinson to Charlie Parker.?Selected Poemsis at once a tribute to Creeley, a perfect introduction for new readers, and a valuable distillation for those who have already acquired a taste for Crl£g