Creeley, Robert

Creeley, Robert

▪ American poet
in full  Robert White Creeley 
born May 21, 1926, Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S.
died March 30, 2005, Odessa, Texas

      American poet and founder of the Black Mountain movement of the 1950s (see Black Mountain poets).

      Creeley dropped out of Harvard University in the last semester of his senior year and spent a year driving a truck in India and Burma (Myanmar) for the American Field Service. Soon after his return to the United States in 1945, he lived on a poultry farm in New Hampshire. By his own account, he spent much time listening to jazz, and his later poems bore the influence of such music. In the early 1950s Creeley lived in France and Majorca, Spain, where he started the Divers Press. In 1955, after receiving a B.A. from Black Mountain College (1954) in North Carolina, he joined Charles Olson (Olson, Charles) on its faculty and was editor of the Black Mountain Review for its first three years. The Review published poems by the then little-known Creeley, as well as poems by various other faculty members and poets. Creeley, who received a master's degree from the University of New Mexico in 1960, later taught poetry at several universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo (1967–2003) and Brown University (2003–05).

      Creeley's poems of the 1950s and '60s reveal the influence of William Carlos Williams (Williams, William Carlos). In For Love (1962), the collection of poems written between 1950 and 1960, Creeley emerged as a master technician. Similar to Williams's poems, Creeley's works are short and to the point. In his later books of poetry, most notably Pieces (1968), Creeley's poems are equally self-contained. His poetry, characterized by understatement, down-to-earth flippancy, and a studious adherence to economic and precise language, influenced many younger poets.

      Creeley's Selected Poems appeared in 1976. Later collections include Later (1979), The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975 (1982), Memory Gardens (1986), Windows (1990), If I Were Writing This (2003), and The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005 (2006). Creeley was the recipient of numerous honours. From 1989 to 1991 he was New York state's poet laureate, and in 1999 he was awarded the Bollingen Prize for achievement in American poetry.

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