His One Eye Glittering
August Kleinzahler: Creeley’s Chatter, 20 May 2021
The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley
edited by Rod Smith, Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.
California, 467 pp., £25, March 2020,978 0 520 32483 1 Show More
edited by Rod Smith, Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.
California, 467 pp., £25, March 2020,
“... verse, as opposed to more traditional or mainstream poets such as Robert Lowell, James Merrill and Richard Wilbur – the sorts likely to be published in the New Yorker and awarded Pulitzers. In those days, you were on one side or the other. Creeley was defiantly on The New American Poetry side, and his work figures prominently in that hugely influential ... ”