Refresh and try again. Je luistert naar een voorbeeld van de Audible-audio-editie, University of California Press (15 januari 2008). In a piece for the London Review of Books, Stephanie Burt wrote that “We recognise Creeley’s poems first by what they leave out: he uses few long or rare words, no regular metres and almost no metaphors,” and, noting how little that style changed, “Creeley kept for five decades a way of writing whose markers include parsimonious diction, strong enjambment, two to four-line stanzas and occasional rhyme. My paperback editions of his books are, sad to say, falling apart with that rare affliction for poetry volumes, poetry books with a cracked spine.It's a fine time to remember Creeley's mastery of the terse lyric poem, a major characteristic in a time when "lyric"for most writers mean lazy associations, odd line breaks and a verbosity that is more about extended a line than treating a subject. I just don't get his greatness; I don't dispute it, I just don't get it. © Poems are the property of their respective owners. Once known primarily for his association with the group called the “Black Mountain Poets,” at the time of his death in 2005, Robert Creeley was widely recognized as one of the most important and influential American poets of the 20th century. Creeley’s prose works include a novel, essays, and short stories, as well as a play, collected letters, and an autobiography, published in 1990. He served as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at State University of New York at Buffalo, and lived in Waldoboro, Maine, Buffalo, New York and Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught at Brown University. March 19th 1996 Welcome back. Charles Bernstein, a colleague of Creeley’s at SUNY-Buffalo wrote in the Brooklyn Rail: “So many poets had an intimate relation with Creeley; he had a way of connecting with each of us in particular and, through that connection with him, to a company of poets in the U.S. and around the world.” Creeley died in 2005 in Odessa, Texas, of complications resulting from lung disease. Is itthat never the ease,even the hardness,of rain fallingwill have for mesomething other than this,something not so insistent--am I to be locked in thisfinal uneasiness.Love, if you love me,lie next to me.Be for me, like rain,the getting outof the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-lust of intentional indifference.Be wetwith a decent ... For love-I wouldsplit open your head and puta candle inbehind the eyes.Love is dead in usif we forgetthe virtues of an amuletand quick surprise. Just small, important, worthwhile and sometimes stunning poems. They rhyme more often. Because Creeley’s second marriage lasted nearly 20 years, the sense of a major chunk of his life drifting away from him is very strong in Hello. R. D. Pohl in the Buffalo News, praised If I Were Writing This, declaring that it “contains some of the starkest and most memorable poems Creeley has written.” Pohl and a Publishers Weekly reviewer both saw If I Were Writing This as a companion volume to Life and Death, each of them “composed primarily of poems dedicated to family and friends (dead and living), collaborative verses, and such poems as ‘For You’ in which intimacy of tone coincides with cryptic, lyrical abstraction.” Pohl noted that If I Were Writing This is the first major volume to appear since Creeley joined the ranks of such poetic giants as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery by winning the prestigious Yale University Bollingen Prize in 1999. There is a lot of stream-of-consciousness writing, at times jagged and non sequitorial, and a lot of negative space in his writing that leaves quite a bit of room for the reader's imagination or interpretation to run wild and unguided. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. Creeley, who received a master’s degree from the University of New Mexico in 1960, later taught poetry at several universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo (1967–2003) and Brown University (2003–05). They have recognisable closure. At times extremely obtuse and unwieldly, when you can break through and connect with a poem like, all people especially those who think they don't read poetry. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. 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