Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition Trade Softcover. Softcover. A vibrant, alluring production, "Away" is the 1976 release from Robert Creeley. Creeley is the noted author commonly associated with Black Mountain College and The Beat Generation, who, like Allen Ginsberg, was mentored by the preceding generation of older "Modernist" poets like William Carlos Williams and "Objectivist" poets such as Louis Zukofsky. Under such sage tutelage and personal..... More

West Branch, IO: Morning Coffee, 1984. Signed Limited Edition Association Copy (Illustrator's Copy). Handsewn into Takeyabu Tan Wrappers. Signed by Robert Creeley with Title Page Illustration by Ann Mikolowski, co-founder of Detroit's "Alternative Press." (#46/600). An exquisite production from Robert Creeley and Morning Coffee Press with title page illustration by Ann Mikolowski, co-founder of Detroit's "Alternative Press," noted publishers of Beat/NY School/Black Mountain/San Francisco Renaissance authors. Signed "Robert Creeley" on..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Signed & Inscribed by Robert Creeley to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, Founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press." "The poems in this book begin at the very beginning so to speak--"Return" was the first poem I remember having published, and was written on my coming back from India to Cambridge in the winter of 1945--and continue to a time which would..... More

Bolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Signed & Inscribed by Robert Creeley to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, Founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press." "I have a curious feeling about the material here collected," Robert Creeley states in his introductory note to this ineffably important volume for Creeley scholars and students of mid-century American poetry alike. "The interviews took place in a variety of circumstances. In some cases the..... More

Lawrence, KS: Terence Williams, 1964. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Creeley. (1/500 unnumbered copies). Drawings by Bobbie Creeley, the poet's wife & an acclaimed artist in her own right. This beautiful single-sheet broadside contains the title poem, "Distance" by Robert Creeley. "Distance" is classic Creeley--sparse, emotive, intimate & pervasive. Creeley's "you" in his poems becomes so personal that it becomes the reader's "you." His persuasion is so confidential..... More

No Place: Periphery & The Salient Seedling Press, 1989. First Edition & Association Copy. Sewn Binding in Stiff Wrappers. Signed & Inscribed by Robert Creeley to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, Founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press." (1/180 unnumbered copies). Initially printed in a run of 230 copies (50 of which were formally signed), this particular edition is one of the 180 unsigned copies but contains a signature from Robert Creeley addressed..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "...Robert Creeley continues to explore the limits and resonances, public and personal, of age. Indeed, the title itself, "Echoes," recurs throughout his poetry of the last two decades. Thus "Sonnets" speak out against the waste of human violence and dogmatism...while the book's closing sequence, "Roman Sketchbook," contemplates with wit and affection the measure of one's literal body in echoing time..... More

Canary Islands, Spain: Zasterle Press, 1991. Numbered Limited First Edition. Softcover. (427/500 Numbered Copies). "Creeley's poems engage the past and the present with a sustained attentiveness, even as they engage us as readers. Welling with emotion while they eschew sentimentality, the poems are self-contained...Privileged are we who lend our ears." (Forrest Gander, "The Boston Review"). Here as in elsewhere in Creeley's sizable published output, we find the eccentric, personal voice..... More

Ontario, CA: The Coach House Press, 1973. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. With Erotic Photographs by Elsa Dorfman. On March 2, 1973, The Coach House Press published Robert Creeley's "His Idea," an erotic poem whose centered attitude on love & lust as seen from the eyes of a yearning man is both evocative and exemplary of Creeley's unique poetic impetus and its colloquial execution. Book in fine condition with moderate ink..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "The poems in "If I Were Writing This," Robert Creeley's first major collection since the highly praised "Life & Death" (1998), have an "aching sweetness" that speaks to the precociousness of life as the poet faces his own mortality and simultaneously looks on a world suddenly more precarious and fragile. In these poems there is longing, a bit of nostalgia..... More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Trade Edition. Softcover in Sewn Binding. "Listen" is an experimental one-act radio play from Robert Creeley, published by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press in 1972. Interestingly enough, "Listen" was "...first broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne, West Germany, on December 1, 1971 in a translation by Klaus Reichert." (from copyright page). This early Black Sparrow edition is furnished with vibrant orange endpapers and contains..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1983. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Mirrors" is a 1983 publication from Robert Creeley that carries all the strength of his earlier books and compounds the mastery their completion yielded to form yet another sleeper classic in his canonized oeuvre. One of the best pieces in the collection, "Buffalo Evening," echoes the sort of imagistic potency he learned from William Carlos Williams some 25+..... More

Buffalo, NY: Just Buffalo Literary Center, 1978. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Creeley. A bold broadside (17"x11") with the title poem by Robert Creeley, presumably referring to the author D.H. Lawrence & the seventeenth century English composer Henry Purcell. Creeley (1926-2005), associated with the Beats & the Black Mountain poets, is a most significant figure in the American poetry canon. This production was issued by the Just Buffalo..... More