Third Mind Books

Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan, Fall 1990. First Printing. Softcover. The Female Body (Part One). This number of the University of Michigan's literary journal includes a poem, "Body," by Robert Creeley; & another, "A Part of the Thousand Ways to Say Goodbye (Psyche to Amor) by Diane di Prima. Both poems address the theme of this issue, The Female Body. Also contributions by Margaret Atwood, John Updike &..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. In speaking of his poem "The Whip," Robert Creeley relates: "...it is music, specifically jazz, that informs the poem's manner in large part. Not that it's jazzy, or about jazz--rather, it's trying to use a rhythmic base much as jazz of this time would--or what was especially characteristic of Charlie Parker's playing, or Miles Davis', Thelonious Monk's, or Milt Jackson's..... More

Greensboro, N.C. The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "This book chronicles the creative output of a poet and his long-standing relationships with painters and sculptors. Robert Creeley--poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor and teacher...consistently produced books, prints, editions, and sculptures with numerous visual artists. They include some of the art world's most important voices of his generation, as well as subsequent generations..."In Company"..... More

Hanover, MA: University Press of New England, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. "What is attempted here is a life writing or life writing itself, the biographer letting the documents speak, speaking through them, impersonating voices, sense of humor, ironies, sarcasms, hypocrises. Rather than the urge to ascertain certain facts, it is carried by the awareness of how our lives' 'events' inevitably come filtered through memory, of how imagination's decaying sense constantly..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Transcript of remarks delivered by the great Beat- Black Mountain School poet Robert Creeley (1926-2005), as a participant in the major conference that was held in Boulder, Colorado at the Naropa Institute during 1982 to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of On the Road, the breakthrough novel by Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation..... More