The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley

Univ of California Press, Jan 17, 2014 - Literary Criticism - 467 pages

Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, peers such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, and mentees such as Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Susan Howe, and Tom Raworth, Creeley helped forge a new poetry that re-imagined writing for his and subsequent generations. This first-ever volume of his letters, written between 1945 and 2005, document the life, work, and times of one of our greatest writers, and represent a critical archive of the development of contemporary American poetry, as well as the changing nature of letter-writing and communication in the digital era.

Contents

• Letter to Genevieve and Helen Creeley 12045: 3
• Letter to Charles Olson 42450 33: 4
• Letter to William Carlos Williams 21150: 18
• Letter to Mitch Goodman 1951: 55
• Letter to Paul Blackburn 52351: 72
• Letter to Charles Olson 71953: 114
• Letter to William Carlos Williams 82154: 129
• Letter to Robert Duncan 9655: 142
• Letter to Mitch Goodman 71856: 157
• Letter to William Carlos Williams 1157: 165
• Letter to Denise Levertov 42258: 178
• Letter to Genevieve Creeley 102659: 191
• Letter to Jonathan Williams 1560: 206
• Letter to Ed Dorn 91460: 220
• Letter to Hugh Kenner 121860: 233
• Letter to Ed Dorn 32661: 247
• Letter to Rosmarie Waldrop 81762: 260
• Letter to Clark Coolidge 102663: 272
• Letter to Ed Dorn 72664: 285
• Letter to Robert Duncan 3667: 298
• Letter to the Albuquerque Journal 91668: 304
• Letter to Bobbie Creeley Bobbie Louise Hawkins 11773: 317
• Letter to Allen Ginsberg 11175: 330
• Letter to Penelope Highton Penelope Creeley 52776: 339
• Letter to John Taggart 61279: 353
• Letter to Tom Clark 1985: 366
• Postcard to Leslie Scalapino 3688: 369
• Letter to Susan Howe 31790: 382
• Fax to Elizabeth Fox 12695: 395
• Email to Benjamin Friedlander 41095: 397
• Email to Sarah Creeley 81802: 410
• Email to Anselm Berrigan 1405: 419
• Letter to Larry Eigner ca February 1950 22: 426
• Letter to Charles Olson 4853 109: 441
• Acknowledgments of Permissions: 459

About the author

Robert Creeley (1926Ñ2005) published more than sixty books of poetry, prose, essays, and interviews in the United States and abroad. His many honors included the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Bollingen Prize for Poetry. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown University.

Rod Smith is the author of several collections of poetry, including Deed (2007), editor of the journal Aerial, publisher of Edge Books, and manager of Bridge Street Books in Washington, D.C.

Peter Baker is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Towson University in Maryland. He is the author or editor of six previous volumes, including Detecting Detection: International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot (2012).

Kaplan Harris is Associate Professor of English at St. Bonaventure University. He has published widely on twentieth-century poetry, including recent articles on Susan Howe, Ted Berrigan, Hannah Weiner, and Kevin Killian.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley; Simpson, imprint in humanities
• Author: Robert Creeley
• Editors: Rod Smith, Peter Baker, Kaplan Harris
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: Univ of California Press, 2014
• ISBN: 0520241606, 9780520241602
• Length: 467 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / Letters; Literary Criticism / American / General; Poetry / General