Feature: Robert Creeley (1926–2005)
Edited by
Michael Kelleher
Robert Creeley, ‘Wow. I called it and why not:’ 7 letters, 1950–1961, edited by Rod Smith, Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.
Charles Alexander: Robert Creeley: The Speech that Seeks Company (two brief notes)
Amiri Baraka: CREELEY TRIBUTE, MAY 06 JUST BUFFALO
A brief interview — composer David Felder in conversation with Michael Kelleher about Felder’s piece “So Quiet Here,” based on four poems by Robert Creeley.
Benjamin Friedlander: Reading in Pieces
Susan Howe: Leaf Flower in the Wind Falling Blue The Dark River
From Words to Pieces: On Robert Creeley, A tape-essay by Tosa Motokiyu, Ojiu Norinaga, and Okura Kyojin, with an introduction by Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez
Alexander Jorgensen: Emails to a Younger Poet
Margaret Konkol: Creeley in Age: Negative Poetics in Robert Creeley’s Late Work
Ruth Lepson: “It Is All a Rhythm”: Robert Creeley and Steve Lacy
Stan Persky: About Robert Creeley (1926–2005)
Kyle Schlesinger: GETTING Behind the Word: Creeley’s TyPOGRAPHY
Dale Smith: Space Suits: the Empirical Tradition in Robert Creeley’s «A Day Book»
Joel Weishaus: A Poem Addressed to Robert Creeley on His Poem “Histoire De Florida.”
Don Wellman: Creeley’s Ear
Off-site: Robert Creeley: A Home Movie. In 2002, Starcherone Books’ Director Ted Pelton interviewed Robert Creeley at his home in Buffalo, NY. In this 45–minute quick-time movie, edited in imovie, Creeley discusses his collaborative work with various artists, Buffalo’s legacy as a poetry city, and the purposes of poetry. This was first presented as a Starcherone Books-sponsored event at Rust Belt Books in Buffalo, NY, on May 12, 2005:
http://www.starcherone.com/creeley2.mov
Robert Creeley
in earlier issues of Jacket:
Jacket 12 - Robert Creeley: Preface to /Against the Silences/, by Paul Blackburn
Jacket 12 - Robert Creeley: Preface to 'Charles Olson...', by Tom Clark
Jacket 14 - Robert Creeley: Scholar's Rocks (poem) — art by Jim Dine
Jacket 15 - Robert Creeley: For Kenneth [Koch]
Jacket 22 - Robert Creeley: In Memoriam Ric Caddel
Jacket 25 - Robert Creeley — Simon Pettet’s Calling
Jacket 25 - Robert Creeley in Conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 24 November, 2003
Jacket 26 – Robert Adamson: Robert Creeley, 1926–2005
Feature: Letters to Poets
Introduction: Dana Teen Lomax and Jennifer Firestone: Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community
Kathleen Fraser and Patrick Pritchett
Paul Hoover and Albert Flynn DeSilver
Leslie Scalapino and Judith Goldman
Articles
Charles Bernstein: Afterword to «The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser» (Revised and Expanded Edition) Edited by Miriam Nichols
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Manhood and its Poetic Projects: The construction of masculinity in the counter-cultural poetry of the U.S. 1950s
Jonathan Fedors: Writing Class in Kevin Davies’ «Comp»
John Felstiner and David Goldstein: The Lure of the God: Robert Duncan on Translating Rilke
Anthony Stephens: Nietzsche’s Unease: The Ambiguity of Poetic Metaphor
Poems
Caroline Bergvall: The Summer Tale (Deus Hic, 1)
Sean Carey: Looking at Peter Porter after many years
Sharon Dolin: Four poems: Missed Hummer / The Give, Seek, Am / This Scabbard’s Free / Lick-Over
Landis Everson: Jack, My Vocabulary Said This
Adam Fieled: Apparition Poems
Alan Gilbert: from “Pretty Words Made a Fool Out of Me”
rob mclennan: Four poems
D.S. Marriott: the levees
Geoff Page: Ugly Beauty
Hazel Smith: In camera
Mark Yakich: New Love Poem
Jeffrey Yang: Bedsong for A — after Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)
Todd Swift: Four poems: Confessions / The Serious Business / I’m In Love With A German Film Star / Hume
John Tranter: Girl in Water
Harriet Zinnes: Possibilities
Grzegorz Wróblewski: Two poems: A Summation Scheme (About the Illness of John T.) / Black Head
More on Flarf
Michael Gottlieb: Googling Flarf: “This is a commonplace: it is virtually impossible to look at Van Gogh or Matisse or read Eliot or Williams and grasp how uncompromising — how ugly, brutal, honest — they once seemed. It is our curse, is it not — as artists, to become picturesque? We should live so long.”
Rick Snyder: The New Pandemonium: A Brief Overview of Flarf: “Such an effort, it is worth noting, doesn’t challenge conventional expectations of what constitutes a poem, but is simply filled with execrable content.”
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Graphic by John Tranter
The Low Countries
Edited by
Karlien van den Beukel
Karlien van den Beukel
Rotterdam, 2005
photo: John Tranter
Paul Bogaert: ADDRESS, translated by John Irons
Arjen Duinker: Senses and Desires, translated by Jeltje Fanoy
Hans Faverey: Poems from Three Cycles: translated by Francis R. Jones
Astrid Lampe: 4 Poems from «Spuit je Ralkleur» (Spray your RAL Colour)
Lucebert: Four Poems, translated by Diane Butterman
Erik Spinoy: Three poems, translated by John Irons
Dirk van Bastelaere: Wwwhhhooossshh (The Opera Ain’t Over Till The Fat Lady Sings), trans. Willem Groenewegen
F. van Dixhoorn: Two Poems: ‘All at sea’ and ‘Big batten’, trans. Astrid van Baalen, with a note on the translation
Reviews:
Andrew Duncan: «The Last to Leave» by Dirk van Bastelaere
Douglas Messerli: Three reviews: Hugo Claus, Remco Campert, Hans Faverey
Eliot Weinberger: «Preface Against the Forgetting: Selected Poems» by Hans Faverey, trans. by Francis Jones
Interviews
Janet Cardiff in conversation with Anthony Easton
The Romantic Objectivist: Hugh Seidman in conversation with Molly Nason,
2006
Reviews
Erik Anderson: Cockerels and Testicles: «Exchanges of Earth & Sky» by Jack Collom
Martin Anderson: «New and Selected Poems» by Kelvin Corcoran
Scott Bentley: «Perspective Would Have Us» by Erica Carpenter
Clive Bush: «Myne. New and Selected Poems and Prose, 1976–2005» by Frances Presley
John Couth: «Inside to Outside» by Christopher Gutkind
Ian Davidson: «Collected Poems» by Lee Harwood
Thomas Fink: «The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. 1» by Eileen R. Tabios
Kass Fleisher: «Nightbirds» by Garin Cycholl
Chris Glomski: Leafing The Now: «Depth Theology» by Peter O’Leary, «The Totality for Kids» by Joshua Clover
Tom Goff: «Must Be Present to Win», poems by Meg Withers
Henry Gould: «Breeze» by John Latta
Lisa Guidarini: «Jagged With Love» by Susanna Childress
Edmund Hardy: «The Places As Preludes» by Gustaf Sobin
Edmund Hardy: «Ancestors and Species: New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry» by Tom Lowenstein
Piers Hugill: «Fig» by Caroline Bergvall, and «Via: Poems 1994–2004», by Caroline Bergvall
Tom Jones: «The Unconditional: A Lyric» by Simon Jarvis
Tim Kahl: «Mulberry», by Dan Beachy-Quick
David Kennedy: Ken Bolton, «At The Flash & At The Baci» — Four Coffees with Ken Bolton
Michael Leddy: Homer: «Iliad» 12 CDs and «Odyssey» 10CDs, translated and read by Stanley Lombardo: ‘…I have been reading and teaching the Iliad and the Odyssey in Lombardo’s translations for several years, and I’m delighted by the ways in which listening to these readings allows nuances of the poems to register.’
Ben Lerner: «Curves to the Apple», by Rosmarie Waldrop
Nicole Mauro: «Twin Towers» by Basil King
Nicole Mauro: «Gogol in Rome» by Katia Kapovich
Bridie McCarthy: «Strange Attractors», by Louis Armand
Tim Morris: «Word is Born», by Michael Kindellan and Reitha Pattison
Robert Mueller: «Ledger» by Susan Wheeler
Paul Nelson: «Lost in the Chamiso» by Amalio Madueño
Paul Nelson: «Fulcrum» Number Four 2005
Craig Perez: «Involuntary Lyrics» by Aaron Shurin
Gilbert Wesley Purdy: «Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved» by Gregory Orr
Brian Richards: «Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets» by Kent Johnson
Peter Riley: «Blue Grass» by Peter Minter
Poets Behaving Badly: Robert Sheppard: «Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court» by Peter Barry: ‘What the Arts Council’s investigating team had failed to achieve in months I accomplished in seconds,’ boasts Osborne of the fateful meeting when the avalanche of resignations was triggered by chairman Jeff Nuttall. ‘They marched out of the room, and I asked the Secretary to be certain to record their resignations in the minutes, for fear they should come to what senses they possessed and march back in again. But they didn’t return. Was ever a victory so inadvertently achieved?’
Dale Smith: «Solution Simulacra» by Gloria Frym
Rob Stanton: «Open Clothes» by Steve Benson
James Stuart: «The Trees: Selected Poems 1967–2004» by E. Montejo and «Walking to Point Clear» by David Brooks
Ezra Tessler: «The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch», by Kenneth Koch
Carolyn van Langenberg: «The Hoplite Journals» by Martin Anderson
Mark Wallace: «Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture» by Joe Amato:
‘… That such forums continue to exist in a society often so hostile to them gives Amato at least a degree of optimism on which to conclude a book that spends most of its time detailing a vast industry of unfreedom and the anguish it causes.’
Ivan Weiss: «Gagarin Street» by Piotr Gwiazda
Marjorie Welish: «Spinoza in Her Youth» by Norma Cole
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Credit: Creeley jacket photo: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005, University of California Press, 1976.
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