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008 971103s1998 nyu 001 0 eng
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020 $a0811213846 (acid-free paper)
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050 00 $aPS3505.R43$bL44 1998
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100 1 $aCreeley, Robert,$d1926-2005.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043504
245 10 $aLife & death /$cRobert Creeley.
246 3 $aLife and death
260 $aNew York :$bNew Directions,$c1998.
300 $a87 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes the previously published Life & death and new poems.
500 $a"Published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation"--T.p. verso.
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aIf 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.
520 8 $aIt 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.
520 8 $aThe 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.
520 8 $aArtists have always proved decisive company for the poet, and the third section contains the texts of three collaborations with the painter Francesco Clemente.
852 00 $bglx$hPS3505.R43$iL44 1998
852 00 $bbar$hPS3505.R43$iL44 1998