Product Description

If youth asks the mirror, "Am I the fairest?" then age, in Robert Creeley's skillful, ironic, and tender voice asks, "Do you remember me?" And the poems of LIFE & DEATH are the mirror's answers--a collage of recollection and salvage, a gathering-in before winter's night.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1034475 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

From Library Journal
Creeley's poems have always been to-the-point, but here they are scrubbed down to the essentials, as befits the theme: Creeley is a mature poet, looking back on life and considering what (little) might lie ahead. Intense, shadowed, and powerfully restrained, these poems are miniatures but hardly small. Creeley has packed them with tremendous vision.
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Review
Creeley has been a seminal figure of the second half of the 20th century. -- From the Citation for the 1999 Bolligen Prize in Poetry

Customer Reviews

Er, well, good yes good
Quite like Creeley's/ older lines, but/ longer/ and more particular/ even in/ their ambiguity./ Now when/ he's not sure/ he's not/ so nervous./ Lovely really.

Actually I liked it./ Really like it./ Read it aloud/ over breakfast sometimes./

The concise conversationalist
William Carlos Williams seems to me the poet closest to Creeley, or the one Creeley is closest to. Small lines of ordinary speech and life which occasionally come more alive and striking. Creeley it seems to me presents a kind of stream- of- consciousness of what he sees now. He is famous for his line- breaks and knowing how to stop the sound and sight in the right place. What he feels and believes about life and love is perhaps given in the fact that he was known as the most congenial conversationalist of poets, and also one most generous to others. He loved the word ' home' and wrote in his last years much about the process of 'aging' .