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Collected ProseAuthor: Robert Creeley American Literature Series December 2001 448 pages, 6 x 9 Dimensions: Paperback, 1-56478-303-0 Retail Paperback Price: Our Paperback Price: $11.16—20% OFF! 
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Book Description
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.About the Author
| Robert Creeley was the author of over four dozen books of poetry, and received numerous awards throughout his lifetime, including a D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Book Award Nomination. In 1989 he was named New York's State Poet. He died in 2005. |
Praise
"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
"Following the tradition of the classical storyteller, Creeley weaves an unending skein of relationships . . . All are sensitive, deeply felt and minutely observed expositions of complex human emotions, with a fair amount of ribaldry and sexual revelry."—Publishers Weekly
"Genuine prose poetry."—M. L. Rosenthal, New York Times
"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 fiction runs on and love is the spark that starts the machine; the driving's all stop and go, the road signs are ambiguous."—Library Journal