Robert Creeley

Here, in a new selection of 200 poems from five decades, is the distinctive voice of Robert Creeley, reminding us of what has made him one of the most important and affectionately regarded poets of our time.

Since the publication of Robert Creeley’s first book of poems, Le Fou, more than forty years ago, he has emerged as one of the most important and original voices in contemporary poetry. Tales Out of School selects five extended interviews that point to Creeley’s artistic influences and reveal the subjects that have preoccupied the poet’s imagination. The interviews cover a range of themes, including Creeley’s childhood and early writing, the influence of jazz on his work, the history of the Black Mountain School, the relationship of geography to the creative process, and the influences and friendship of other poets, including Pound, Williams, Ginsberg, Levertov, Duncan, and Olson. Taken together, the interviews provide an active context for and complement an understanding of this significant and prolific poet’s achievement.

An interactive biographical essay culled from conversations between Robert Creeley and poet Tom Clark.

Here, gathered together in one volume for the first time, is the prose work of Robert Creeley, on of the major voices of post-World War II American literature. His writing again demonstrates the insistent and various explorations of the relationships which have become the hallmark of his singular accomplishment and genius. It contains THE GOLD DIGGERS, a collection of short stories, his novel, THE ISLAND, and MABEL: A STORY, as well as the volume LISTEN which he did as a radio play.