Robert White Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books.
28 Facts About Robert Creeley
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Robert Creeley is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school.
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Robert Creeley was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn.
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Robert Creeley served as the Samuel P Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Robert Creeley lived in Waldoboro, Buffalo, and Providence, where he taught at Brown University.
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Robert Creeley was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Robert Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, and grew up in Acton.
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Robert Creeley returned to Harvard in 1946, but eventually earned his BA from Black Mountain College in 1955, teaching some courses there as well.
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Robert Creeley later met and befriended Jackson Pollock at the Cedar Tavern in New York City.
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Robert Creeley was a chicken farmer briefly in Littleton, New Hampshire, before becoming a teacher in 1949.
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Robert Creeley wrote about half of his published prose while living on the island, including a short-story collection, The Gold Diggers, and a novel, The Island.
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Robert Creeley said that Martin and Janet Seymour-Smith are represented by Artie and Marge in the novel.
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Robert Creeley saw to the printing of some issues of Origin and Black Mountain Review on Mallorca, because the printing costs were significantly lower there.
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In 1960, Robert Creeley earned an MA from the University of New Mexico.
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Robert Creeley began his academic career by teaching at the prestigious Albuquerque Academy starting in 1958 until about 1960 or 1961.
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Robert Creeley read at the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Festival and at the 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference.
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Robert Creeley would stay at this post until 2003, when he received a post at Brown University.
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Robert Creeley first received fame in 1962 from his poetry collection For Love.
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Robert Creeley would go on to win the Bollingen Prize, among others, and to hold the position of New York State Poet laureate from 1989 until 1991.
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Robert Creeley was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
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Robert Creeley went to great lengths to be supportive to many people regardless of any poetic affiliation.
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Robert Creeley died in the morning of March 30,2005, in Odessa, Texas of complications from pneumonia.
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Robert Creeley has long been aware that he is part of a definable tradition in the American poetry of this century, so long as 'tradition' is thought of in general terms and so long as it recognizes crucial distinctions among its members.
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Parallel to that tradition has been the tradition Creeley identifies with, the Pound-Olson-Zukofsky-Black Mountain tradition, what M L Rosenthal [in his 1967 book The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II] calls 'The Projectivist Movement.
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When he used imagery, Robert Creeley could be interesting and effective on the sensory level.
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In 1979 jazz bassist Steve Swallow released the album Home featuring poems by Robert Creeley set to music, and Robert Creeley later collaborated with Swallow on three further albums, including So There.
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Early work by Robert Creeley appeared in the avant-garde little magazine Nomad at the beginning of the 1960s.
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Posthumous publications of Creeley's work have included the second volume of his Collected Poems, which was published in 2006, and The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley edited by Rod Smith, Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker, published in 2014 by the University of California Press.