Stephanie Burt: Robert Creeley, 21 February 2008
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1945-75 California, 681 pp., £12.55, October 2006, 0 520 24158 4Show More The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1975-2005 California, 662 pp., £29.95, October 2006, 0 520 24159 2Show More On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay by Robert Creeley.
California, 89 pp., £12.95, April 2006, 0 520 24791 4Show More Selected Poems: 1945-2005 by Robert Creeley, edited by Benjamin Friedlander.
California, 339 pp., $21.95, January 2008, 978 0 520 25196 0Show More Show More“... For a spell during the 1960s, Robert Creeley’s ‘I Know a Man’ may have been the most often quoted, even the most widely known, short poem by a living American. Here is the poem: As I sd to my friend, because I am always talking, – John, I sd, which was not his name, the darkness sur- rounds us, what can we do against it, or else, shall we & why not, buy a goddamn big car, drive, he sd, for christ’s sake, look out where yr going ...”