Life & Death

By Robert Creeley

Book Overview

In 1999 Robert Creeley received the prestigious Bollingen Prize in Poetry and was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Both honors made specific notes of his experimental style, his long influence, and his ongoing importance. Creeley's 1998 collection, Life & Death, now available as a New Direction paperback, is the capstone of a career that has poignantly combined "linguistic abstraction with specificity of time and place." (R.D. Pohl, Buffalo News)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811214494
• ISBN13: 9780811214490
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The concise conversationalist

William Carlos Williams seems to me the poet closest to Creeley, or the one Creeley is closest to. Small lines of ordinary speech and life which occasionally come more alive and striking. Creeley it seems to me presents a kind of stream- of- consciousness of what he sees now. He is famous for his line- breaks and knowing how to stop the sound and sight in the right place. What he feels and believes about life and love is perhaps given in the fact that he was known as the most congenial conversationalist of poets, and also one most generous to others. He loved the word ' home' and wrote in his last years much about the process of 'aging' .

Er, well, good yes good

Quite like Creeley's/ older lines, but/ longer/ and more particular/ even in/ their ambiguity./ Now when/ he's not sure/ he's not/ so nervous./ Lovely really.Actually I liked it./ Really like it./ Read it aloud/ over breakfast sometimes./