Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994
by Robert Creeley
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"Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 continues the consolidation of Robert Creeley's later work begun with So There: Poems 1976-83 (1998). Just in Time combines Memory Gardens (1986), Windows (1990), and Echoes (1994) in a volume that further validates the Lifetime Achievement Awards conferred on Creeley by the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000 and the Lannan Foundation in 2001"--Jacket.Tags
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This is probably not the best introduction to Robert Creeley's poetry, as I gather he was at the height of his influence 30 or 40 years ago. But he was clearly still alive and kicking in the 90s, when these poems were written. (He died in 2005.) There are a couple of interview transcripts at the front of the book, which cast very little light for readers such as I. The interviewer is very impressed, for example, that one of Creeley's poems 'is not sayable'; over here on the cultural margins, we like the idea of poetry as musical speech, eminently sayable, even at times singable. Just the same there are enough lines, and enough whole poems, that do speak with power and feeling, to make me want more.
I'm sure the last stanza of "Oh" will show more echo in my head during nursing home visits for ages to come. show less
I'm sure the last stanza of "Oh" will show more echo in my head during nursing home visits for ages to come. show less
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Robert Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1926. He attended Harvard University and served in the American Field Service in India and Burma during World War II. In 1960, he received a Master's Degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He taught at Black Mountain College, an experimental arts college in North show more Carolina, and was the editor of the Black Mountain Review. During his lifetime, he published more than sixty books of poetry including For Love: Poems 1950-1960, The Finger, Later, Mirrors, Memory Gardens, Echoes, Life and Death, and If I Were Writing This. In 1960, he won the Levinson Prize for a group of 10 poems published in Black Mountain Review. He also won the Shelley Memorial Award in 1981, the Frost Medal in 1987, and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award. He served as New York State Poet Laureate from 1989 to 1991. He also wrote the novel The Island and a collection of short stories entitled The Gold Diggers. He edited several books including Charles Olson's Selected Poems, The Essential Burns, and Whitman: Selected Poems. He taught English at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He died on March 30, 2005 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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