The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley / / Robert Creeley.

• VerfasserIn: Creeley, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [1989]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 1989
• Edition: Reprint 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 603 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I HEROES/ELDERS -- Introduction to Penguin Selected Whitman -- Hart Crane and the Private Judgment -- The Letters of Hart Crane, Edited by Brom Weber -- A Note on Ezra Pound -- Why Pound!?! -- The Release -- William Carlos Williams: Selected Essays -- A Character for Love -- The Fact -- Foreword to The Manuscripts and Letters of William Carlos Williams, by Neil Baldwin and Steven L. Meyers -- "paradise/our/speech . . ." -- Louis Zukofsky: All: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1958 -- A Note -- All Ears Hear Here -- For L.Z. -- A Personal Note -- A Note on Basil Bunting -- Basil Bunting -- H. D. -- Here -- II THE COMPANY -- Introduction to The New Writing in the USA -- Charles Olson: Y & X -- Charles Olson: In Cold Hell, in Thicket -- Preface to Mayan Letters, by Charles Olson -- Charles Olson: The Maximus Poems, 1—10 -- Olson & Others: Some Orts for the Sports -- Some Notes on Olson's Maximus -- Introduction to Charles Olson: Selected Writings I -- Introduction to Charles Olson: Selected Writings II -- "A Foot Is to Kick With" -- "An Image of Man . . .": Working Notes on Charles Olson's Concept of Person -- Charles Olson's Masterwork -- "A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud" -- "To disclose that vision particular to dreams" -- Preface to Robert Duncan: A Descriptive Bibliography, by Robert J. Bertholf -- "An intensely singular art" -- Edward Dorn in the News -- Edward Dorn's Geography -- Preface to Selected Poems, by Edward Dorn -- The New World -- For Michael -- Preface to Against the Silences, by Paul Blackburn -- "How Is It Far If You Think It?" -- III THE WRITING LIFE -- Kenneth Patchen: Fables £s? Other Little Tales -- A Note on Canadian Poetry -- Canadian Poetry 1954 -- D. H. Lawrence: Studies in Classic American Literature -- Witter Bynner: Journey with Genius -- Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Guignol's Band & John Hawkes: The Goose on the Grave -- "By God, Pomeroy, you here!" -- Waiting for Godot -- Ramón Sender: Two Novels -- On Love -- The Journals of Jean Cocteau -- Kenneth Rexroth: In Defense of the Earth -- Edward Dahlberg: The Sorrows of Priapus -- Evergreen Review, Nos. 1 and 2 -- "To Build Castles in Spain" -- "Her Service Is Perfect Freedom" -- A New Testament -- Ways of Looking -- The Fascinating Bore -- Preface to Sticks and Stones, by George Bowering -- "Think what's got away..." -- The Beat Voznesensky -- Judson Crews -- A Note for Thread and Fielding Dawson -- A Note for Kenneth Irby -- Frederick Eckman: The Epistemologa of Loss -- A Note for These Poems... -- Rainer Gerhardt: A Note -- Introduction to Thongs, by Alex Trocchi -- AM -- Introduction to Krazy Katl The Unveiling & Other Stories, by Fielding Dawson -- For Diane -- Foreword to The Sterile Honeycomb, by Arthur Axelrod -- Gee Gerry G... -- Lew -- A Note for Hilda Morley: A Blessing Outside Us -- Foreword to Sojourner Microcosms, by Anselm Hollo -- Introduction to The Manner Music, by Charles Reznikoff -- Preface to Nolo Contendere, by Judson Crews -- Preface to The Blind Receptionist and Other Poems, by Robert J. Richkin -- Foreword to Running Grass: Poems 1970-1977, by Peter Levitt -- Xmas as in Merry -- Poetry of Commitment -- First Prize -- First Prize -- Ted Berrigan's Death -- William Corbett: Two Books -- No Matter What: A Note for Collected Poems, by William Corbett -- An Afterword to Splendide-Hôtel, by Gilbert Sorrentino -- The Gentle on the Mind Number -- With Crusoe, on Familiar Shores -- Kenneth Koch's Selected Poems, 1950-1982 -- Gone Fishing -- From the Language Poets -- A True Poet -- Preface to The Leafless American, by Edward Dahlberg -- Foreword to The Collected Poems of Marsden Hartley -- Foreword to Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction, by Martin Espada -- IV ARTISTS -- On the Road: Notes on Artists 8c Poets, 1950-1965 -- Divers Sentiments -- René Laubiès: An Introduction -- A Note on Franz Kline -- Philip Guston: A Note -- Harry Callahan: A Note -- A Note -- Feedback: "Contemporary Voices in the Arts" -- John Chamberlain -- Frank Stella: A Way to Go -- "Mehr Licht . .." -- Ecce Homo -- Three Films -- Bill the King -- "Some Place Enormously Moveable": The Collaboration of Arakawa and Madeline H. Gins -- Introduction to Larry Bell: New Work -- Memories of John -- My New Mexico -- Jim Dine/Five Themes -- Face It -- Seeing Things: Preface to Scopophilia, by Gerard Malanga -- Foreword to The Poet Exposed, Portraits by Christopher Felver -- V AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND POETICS -- A Note on the Objective -- Notes for a New Prose -- How to Write a Novel -- To Define -- A Dilemma -- A Note -- A Note on the Local -- A Quick Graph -- "Statement" for the Paterson Society -- Why Bother? -- A Sense of Measure -- "Poems are a complex" -- A Statement about the Poem "The Name" -- Notes Apropos "Free Verse" -- "I'm given to write poems" -- The Black Mountain Review -- The Writer's Situation -- Writing -- On the New Cultural Conservatism -- The Creative -- Inside Out -- Foreword to Robert Creeley: An Inventory, 1945—1970, by Mary Novik -- Last Night -- Was That a Real Poem or Did You Just Make It Up Yourself? -- A Note for Hello -- Letter from Berlin -- Berlin, Etc. -- Form -- Index -- Backmatter