His One Eye Glittering
August Kleinzahler: Creeley’s Chatter, 20 May 2021
The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley
edited by Rod Smith, Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.
California, 467 pp., £25, March 2020,978 0 520 32483 1 Show More
edited by Rod Smith, Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.
California, 467 pp., £25, March 2020,
“... Logorrhoea: Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley were all afflicted with it. I only ever witnessed Duncan’s performances – free-form, extended, mostly improvised soliloquies. The one I remember best was at the poet Carl Rakosi’s house. It was many years ago, but I think he touched on Plato, Beethoven, Milton, Tom Thumb, Lysistrata, the genus Asterias (starfish) and the song ‘Penny Lane ... ”
