Product Description

"Drawn & Quartered" documents a collaboration between preeminent American avant-garde poet Robert Creeley and award-winning artist Archie Rand. In Creeley's words: ''The procedure was for Archie to slide me an image on the litho paper. I'd try a take or two to get the feel, writing on a usual sheet of typing paper, then resolve on a particular quatrain, put it with the litho sheet related--and on to the next. So we worked through the afternoon until, finally, all fifty-four poems were finished. Then I copied each poem under its respective image on the litho sheet....I felt as if I had been in some fantastic traffic of narratives, all the echoes and presences and situations--like very real life indeed. I loved the almost baroque feel of the drawings, the echo of old-time illustrations and children's books. Whatever, Archie's sure got me. The rest you can judge for yourself.''

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2037128 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-15
• Released on: 2001-06-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Experimenting in the "fantastic traffic of narratives," esteemed poet Robert Creeley (Windows) and artist Archie Rand collaborated on the making of Drawn & Quartered. For one day Creeley, undertook a somewhat improvisational, chance-based writing process, riffing off of Rand's 54 lithographs, one quatrain for each drawing mostly watery figures can be solitary, pressed en masse into a box seat, standing playing a flute, riding a horse, etc. Creeley's accompaniments are by turns silly, sorrowful, exclamatory, enigmatic. All of them use rhyme, often of the slant variety: "Have you known each other long?/ Long before you were born!/ Have you both been happy in marriage?/ I think it's proven a commodious carriage."

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About the Author
Born in Arlington, Massachusets in 1926, Robert Creeley attended Harvard University from 1943-1946. Through the Black Mountain Review and his own critical writings, Creeley helped to define an emerging counter-tradition to the literary establishment--a postwar poetry originating with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Zukofsky and expanding through the lives and works of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Edward Dorn, and others.