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The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program - Robert CreeleyApril 10-11, 2000 |
| | Robert Creeley reading - A digital recording of the April 10, 2000 event where Creeley read from his work. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event.
Robert
Creeley interview/conversation - A recording of the April 11, 2000
audiocast of the interview and conversation with Robert Creeley, moderated
by
Al
Filreis, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers
House:
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These recordings of poems from Robert Creeley's reading on April 10, 2000
have been made available as part of the PENNsound
project: 1. A Place (0:31) 2. At whatever age he was (2:57) 3. Bresson's Movies (1:12) 4. Echoes (0:43) 5. En Famile (5:13) 6. Help (1:03) 7. Love (0:25) 8. Myself (2:02) 9. The House (1:32) 10. There (1:03) 11. Thinking (0:52) 12. This World (1:08) 13. Voices Fading Fast (9:07) 14. Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang (4:20) Robert Creeley is among the most accomplished and most influential living poets. He was born in Massachusetts in 1926 and as a young poet after WWII was strongly swayed by William Carlos Williams, who later praised Creeley has having "the subtlest feeling for the measure...except in the verses of Ezra Pound." Creeley helped launch Cid Corman's magazine Origin, conducted a huge and profound correspondence with Charles Olson, and soon joined Olson at Black Mountain College where he edited The Black Mountain Review. Olson admired how Creeley "lands syntax down the alley." His collections of poems include For Love (1962); Words (1967); Pieces (1969); The Finger (1970); A Day Book (1972); Thirty Things (1974); Away (1976); Later (1978); Memory Gardens (1986); Windows (1990). The Collected Poems, 1945-75 was published in 1983; So There: Poems 1976-83 appeared in 1998. He has lived in Guatemala, Finland, France and Spain, and served with the American Field Service in India and Burma. He was awarded the Horst Bienek Lyrikpreis from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, and, among many other honors, was New York State Laureate from 1989-91. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in Buffalo, New York. Edward Dorn praised Creeley as "the master of immediate speech," while Allen Ginsberg revered Creeley's "syllable by syllable intelligence." Robert Creeley held the Poetics Chair at SUNY Buffalo, prior to Charles Bernstein. Also available: Photographs of the visit.
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