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Collected ProseCollection Lannan Selections
Early in his career, Robert Creeley believed that his greatest contributions to literature would be in prose. Although he has since established himself as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, his remarkable body of prose work remains an essential part of his oeuvre. In addition to his first book of short stories The Gold Diggers, a novel The Island, a radio play Listen, and Mabel: A Story, this omnibus edition includes two previously uncollected stories.
Details
ISBN-10
1-56478-303-0
ISBN-13
9781564783035
Publication Date
Dec 2001
Nb of pages
448
Dimensions 6 x 9 in.
Summary
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Creeley turns from continuity, structure, and plot as we know it toward 'that intimate, familiar, localizing, detailing, speculative, emotional, unending talking.' Indeed, talk is the fuel his
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Robert Creeley has created a noble life body of poetry that extends the work of his predecessors Pound, Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson and provides like them a method for his successors in exploring our new American poetic consciousness.
-Allen Ginsberg
Creeley inherits the minimalist style of Beckett and the ethical concerns of Flaubert and Stendhal.
-Michael Davidson
In over thirty years of publication Creeley has never sounded like anyone but himself—a rare achievement, and one which is possible only to an authentic voice, a voice constantly discovering the exact words it has need for.
-Denise Levertov WE ALSO SUGGEST
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