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Feature: Robert Creeley (1926–2005)
Robert Creeley

Edited by
Michael Kelleher

button Robert Creeley, ‘Wow. I called it and why not:’ 7 letters, 1950–1961, edited by Rod Smith, Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.

button Charles Alexander: Robert Creeley: The Speech that Seeks Company (two brief notes)

button Amiri Baraka: CREELEY TRIBUTE, MAY 06 JUST BUFFALO

button 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.

button Benjamin Friedlander: Reading in Pieces

button Susan Howe: Leaf   Flower in the Wind   Falling Blue  The Dark River

button 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

button Alexander Jorgensen: Emails to a Younger Poet

button Margaret Konkol: Creeley in Age: Negative Poetics in Robert Creeley’s Late Work

button Ruth Lepson: “It Is All a Rhythm”: Robert Creeley and Steve Lacy

button Stan Persky: About Robert Creeley (1926–2005)

button Kyle Schlesinger: GETTING Behind the Word: Creeley’s TyPOGRAPHY

button Dale Smith: Space Suits: the Empirical Tradition in Robert Creeley’s «A Day Book»

button Joel Weishaus: A Poem Addressed to Robert Creeley on His Poem “Histoire De Florida.”

button Don Wellman: Creeley’s Ear

button 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:

Creeley book cover UCP

button Jacket 12 - Robert Creeley: Preface to /Against the Silences/, by Paul Blackburn

button Jacket 12 - Robert Creeley: Preface to 'Charles Olson...', by Tom Clark

button Jacket 14 - Robert Creeley: Scholar's Rocks (poem) — art by Jim Dine

button Jacket 15 - Robert Creeley: For Kenneth [Koch]

button Jacket 22 - Robert Creeley: In Memoriam Ric Caddel

button Jacket 25 - Robert Creeley — Simon Pettet’s Calling

button Jacket 25 - Robert Creeley in Conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 24 November, 2003

button Jacket 26 – Robert Adamson: Robert Creeley, 1926–2005

Feature: Letters to Poets

button Introduction: Dana Teen Lomax and Jennifer Firestone: Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community

button Kathleen Fraser and Patrick Pritchett

button Paul Hoover and Albert Flynn DeSilver

button Leslie Scalapino and Judith Goldman

Articles

button Charles Bernstein: Afterword to «The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser» (Revised and Expanded Edition) Edited by Miriam Nichols

button Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Manhood and its Poetic Projects: The construction of masculinity in the counter-cultural poetry of the U.S. 1950s

button Jonathan Fedors: Writing Class in Kevin Davies’ «Comp»

button John Felstiner and David Goldstein: The Lure of the God: Robert Duncan on Translating Rilke

button Anthony Stephens: Nietzsche’s Unease: The Ambiguity of Poetic Metaphor

Poems

button Caroline Bergvall: The Summer Tale (Deus Hic, 1)

button Sean Carey: Looking at Peter Porter after many years

button Sharon Dolin: Four poems: Missed Hummer / The Give, Seek, Am / This Scabbard’s Free / Lick-Over

button Landis Everson: Jack, My Vocabulary Said This

button Adam Fieled: Apparition Poems

button Alan Gilbert: from “Pretty Words Made a Fool Out of Me”

button rob mclennan: Four poems

button D.S. Marriott: the levees

button Geoff Page: Ugly Beauty

button Hazel Smith: In camera

button Mark Yakich: New Love Poem

button Jeffrey Yang: Bedsong for A — after Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)

button Todd Swift: Four poems: Confessions / The Serious Business / I’m In Love With A German Film Star / Hume

button John Tranter: Girl in Water

button Harriet Zinnes: Possibilities

button Grzegorz Wróblewski: Two poems: A Summation Scheme (About the Illness of John T.) / Black Head

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More on Flarf

button 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.”

button 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.”

Rimbaud in 3-D

Graphic by John Tranter

 
The Low Countries

Edited by
Karlien van den Beukel

Karlien van den Beukel, Rotterdam, 2005, photo by John Tranter

Karlien van den Beukel
Rotterdam, 2005
photo: John Tranter

button Paul Bogaert: ADDRESS, translated by John Irons

button Arjen Duinker: Senses and Desires, translated by Jeltje Fanoy

button Hans Faverey: Poems from Three Cycles: translated by Francis R. Jones

button Astrid Lampe: 4 Poems from «Spuit je Ralkleur» (Spray your RAL Colour)

button Lucebert: Four Poems, translated by Diane Butterman

button Erik Spinoy: Three poems, translated by John Irons

button Dirk van Bastelaere: Wwwhhhooossshh (The Opera Ain’t Over Till The Fat Lady Sings), trans. Willem Groenewegen

button F. van Dixhoorn: Two Poems: ‘All at sea’ and ‘Big batten’, trans. Astrid van Baalen, with a note on the translation

Reviews:

button Andrew Duncan: «The Last to Leave» by Dirk van Bastelaere

button Douglas Messerli: Three reviews: Hugo Claus, Remco Campert, Hans Faverey

button Eliot Weinberger: «Preface Against the Forgetting: Selected Poems» by Hans Faverey, trans. by Francis Jones

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Interviews

button Janet Cardiff in conversation with Anthony Easton

button The Romantic Objectivist: Hugh Seidman in conversation with Molly Nason, 2006

Reviews

button Erik Anderson: Cockerels and Testicles: «Exchanges of Earth & Sky» by Jack Collom

button Martin Anderson: «New and Selected Poems» by Kelvin Corcoran

button Scott Bentley: «Perspective Would Have Us» by Erica Carpenter

button Clive Bush: «Myne. New and Selected Poems and Prose, 1976–2005» by Frances Presley

button John Couth: «Inside to Outside» by Christopher Gutkind

button Ian Davidson: «Collected Poems» by Lee Harwood

button Thomas Fink: «The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. 1» by Eileen R. Tabios

button Kass Fleisher: «Nightbirds» by Garin Cycholl

button Chris Glomski: Leafing The Now: «Depth Theology» by Peter O’Leary, «The Totality for Kids» by Joshua Clover

button Tom Goff: «Must Be Present to Win», poems by Meg Withers

button Henry Gould: «Breeze» by John Latta

button Lisa Guidarini: «Jagged With Love» by Susanna Childress

button Edmund Hardy: «The Places As Preludes» by Gustaf Sobin

button Edmund Hardy: «Ancestors and Species: New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry» by Tom Lowenstein

button Piers Hugill: «Fig» by Caroline Bergvall, and «Via: Poems 1994–2004», by Caroline Bergvall

button Tom Jones: «The Unconditional: A Lyric» by Simon Jarvis

button Tim Kahl: «Mulberry», by Dan Beachy-Quick

button David Kennedy: Ken Bolton, «At The Flash & At The Baci» — Four Coffees with Ken Bolton

button 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.’

button Ben Lerner: «Curves to the Apple», by Rosmarie Waldrop

button Nicole Mauro: «Twin Towers» by Basil King

button Nicole Mauro: «Gogol in Rome» by Katia Kapovich

button Bridie McCarthy: «Strange Attractors», by Louis Armand

button Tim Morris: «Word is Born», by Michael Kindellan and Reitha Pattison

button Robert Mueller: «Ledger» by Susan Wheeler

button Paul Nelson: «Lost in the Chamiso» by Amalio Madueño

button Paul Nelson: «Fulcrum» Number Four 2005

button Craig Perez: «Involuntary Lyrics» by Aaron Shurin

button Gilbert Wesley Purdy: «Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved» by Gregory Orr

button Brian Richards: «Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets» by Kent Johnson

button Peter Riley: «Blue Grass» by Peter Minter

button 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?’

button Dale Smith: «Solution Simulacra» by Gloria Frym

button Rob Stanton: «Open Clothes» by Steve Benson

button James Stuart: «The Trees: Selected Poems 1967–2004» by E. Montejo and «Walking to Point Clear» by David Brooks

button Ezra Tessler: «The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch», by Kenneth Koch

button Carolyn van Langenberg: «The Hoplite Journals» by Martin Anderson

button 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.’

button Ivan Weiss: «Gagarin Street» by Piotr Gwiazda

button 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.

 

People strike sparks off each other; that is what I try to note down. But mark well, they only do this when they are talking together. After all, we don't write letters now, we telephone. And one of these days we are going to have TV sets which lonely people can talk to and get answers back. Then no one will read anymore.  — British novelist Henry Green (to Terry Southern, Paris Review interview, 1958)

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