Robert Creeley
Birth date: May 21, 1926
Died: March 30, 2005
Robert Creeley's Books
my first contact with kerouac's work and i decided to start by reading his poems. some may say that i should have read his novels beforehand, as his strength is in his prose, yet i beg to differ. i think his poems are filled with rhythm and musicality. it certainly was the best way to get sucked int...
A posthumous release of Kerouac's unpublished first novel, and it definitely reads like a first novel. It isn't badly written, but I found it boring. It's probably only of interest to the kind of fans who must read every word an author ever produced, even if it's a grocery list. I may try to come ba...
I've always enjoyed Creeley's sparse, clear poetry, but this book was too uneven. It was put together after his death, which is always a debatable exercise. Many reflections on aging and at times he slips with lines such as "Life is like a river. A river with beginning or end" found in same poem (A ...