Table of Contents
Introduction - 1
Chronology - 21
Part One: The 1950s: Beginnings
Excerpts from Letters to Robert Creeley
William Carlos Williams - 29
A Letter to Robert Creeley
Louis Zukofsky - 32
A Letter to Robert Creeley
Charles Olson - 34
From "A Commemorative Evening for Louis Zukofsky"
Celia Zukofsky, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley - 38
Gripping, Pushing, Moving
Sherman Paul - 40
From "Robert Creeley at Black Mountain"
Michael Rumaker - 49
From "Black Mountaineering"
Gilbert Sorrentino - 67
A Requisite Commintment
Cid Corman - 70
From "Five Poets"
Robert Beum - 73
"What I Come To Do Is Partial"
Louis Zukofsky - 75
The Work of Robert Creeley
Crunk [Robert Bly] - 78
From "More Than Pretty Music"
Hugh Kenner - 91
From "Bearded Barbarians or Real Bards?"
Kenneth Rexroth - 92
Part Two: The 1960s: Into a Present, a Presence
After For Love
Robert Duncan - 95
"For Love" Of
Cid Corman - 103
Creeley's For Love
John William Corringtion - 123
From "Robert Creeley's For Love Revisited"
Robert Peters - 128
Version [a poem]
Robert Creeley - 131
Introduction to Robert Creeley
Charles Olson - 133
Review of The Gold Diggers
Linda W. Wagner - 136
To Take Place and to "Take Heart"
Frederic Will - 151
From "An Alphabet of Poets"
John Thompson - 153
Words
Arthur Ford - 157
A World of Sensible Particulars
Irvin Ehrenpreis - 175
Address and Posture in the Early Poetry of Robert Creeley
Kenneth Cox - 180
Robert Creeley: "I Begin Where I Can, and End When I See the Whole Thing Returning."
Richard Howard - 187
Robert Creeley and the Pleasures of System
Robert von Hallberg - 199
Robert Creeley and the Tradition
George F. Butterick - 217
Review of Pieces
Reed Whittemore - 236
From "Recent Poetry: The End of an Era"
Louis L. Martz - 239
Review of Pieces
Peter Cooley - 253
Part Three: The 1970s: A Life Tracking Itself
Later Poems
Problems of Robert Creeley
M. L. Rosenthal - 265
"In London"
Cynthia Dubin Edelberg - 275
A Reading of Thirty Things
Robert Duncan - 301
Creeley's Late Poems: Contexts
Linda W. Wagner - 310
From "Possibilities of Conclusion"
Christopher Lambert - 321
Pieces of a Mirror: Robert Creeley's Later Poetry
Fred Moramarco - 335
Creeley and the Visual Arts - 345
From "Robert Creeley on Art and Poetry: An Interview with Kevin Power"
Kevin Power and Robert Creeley - 347
From "The Act of Seeing with one's own eyes': Stan Brakhage and Robert Creeley"
Wendy Brabner - 370
A Sense of Increment: The Cellected Poems - 389
Creeley: His Metric
Robert Hass - 391
Small Persistent Difficulties
Thom Gunn - 401
Robert Creeley's Continuum
Hugh Kenner - 410
Bibliography - 415
