Robert Creeley: A Biography

✍ Scribed by Ekbert Faas; Maria Trombacco

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 540
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Robert Creeley focuses on the first forty years of the poet's life B years of rebellion, restless travel, tumultuous liaisons, and anger and violence that gave his writing an idiosyncratic new voice of razor-sharp precision and vehemence. With his unfailing flair for recognizing talent, as a small press publisher and editor he promoted the likes of Layton, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Olson, and Burroughs. Their stars rose while he scraped by, until his poetry collection For Love and a novel, The Island, earned him fame and a critical acclaim largely denied the Beats. Since then his poetry has become increasingly autobiographical and nostalgic, dwelling on the deliberately commonplace, on decrepitude, and finally on death.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 Childhood
2 School
3 Harvard, 1943–44
4 Sex
5 American Field Service, 1944–45
6 Harvard, 1946–47
7 Marriage
8 The Emerging Writer and Publicist
9 Charles Olson
10 Origin
11 Going to Europe
12 “For Rainer Gerhardt”
13 Lambesc, 1952
14 Majorca, 1952–53
15 The Island
16 Black Mountain Review
17 Black Mountain, 1954
18 The Tarnished Lover
19 Majorca, 1954–55
20 The Misogynists
21 Black Mountain, 1955–56
22 Albuquerque, 1956
23 San Francisco, 1956
24 The Creeley Formula
25 The Midsummer Night’s Mare
26 The Schoolteacher
27 Bobbie
28 In Limbo
29 Guatemala, 1959–60
30 Guatemala, 1960–61
31 New Mexico, 1961–62
32 Canada, 1962–63
33 Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963
34 Anger
35 The Unsuccessful Husband
AFTERWORD
APPENDIX: EXCEPTS FROM ANN MACKINNON’S MEMOIRS AND FROM HER 1944 DIARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
INDEX
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