An edition of Life & death (1993)

Life & death

Life & death
Robert Creeley, Robert Creeley
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An edition of Life & death (1993)

Life & death

If youth asks the mirror, "Am I the fairest?" then age, in Robert Creeley's 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. The first section, "Histoire de Florida," is a partial autobiography at a specific time and place.

It captures the poet in an engaged and highly compacted moment that deliberately echoes Wallace Stevens's "The Anecdote of the Jar" - a reverberation from the poet's youth.

The second section, "Old Poems, Etc.," contains classic reflections - from the doggerel humor of "'Present (Present)'" to parody of early Metaphysical models like George Herbert in "Echo's Arrow." The capstone of this section is the sustained "The Dogs of Auckland," which focuses impressions from an extended time spent in that city and becomes a resume of age and its effects, made vividly objective by the contrasting culture of New Zealand.

Artists have always proved decisive company for the poet, and the third section contains the texts of three collaborations with the painter Francesco Clemente.

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Publisher
Grenfell Press
Language
English
Pages
10

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Life & death
1998, New Directions
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Life & death
1993, Grenfell Press
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Edition Notes

"Published ... in an edition of seventy in November of 1993"--Colophon.
Leaves on one continuous strip folded accordion style, with last leaf mounted on back cover.
LC has copy no. 43, signed by the author and artist.

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[New York]

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3505.R43 L44 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
[10] leaves, [7] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
10

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL923915M
LCCN
95222436

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