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

Robert Creeley, Ken Mikolowski, Ann Mikolowski. New York, NY: Scribners, 1969. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Softcover Original in Sewn Binding. "Pieces" is the 1969 release from the acclaimed poet & educator affiliated with the Black Mountain School & Beat Generation, Robert Creeley. As early as 1950 Charles Olson (in a letter to Creeley) declared: "say I: this man can...truly return us to the antient Anglo-Saxon heart." Olson would go on..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Robert Creeley's first published assembly of prose literary criticism and commentary was published by Don Allen's Four Seasons Foundation in 1970, and contains some of Creeley's best writing on the art of poetry. Creeley's investigative mind penetrates the surfaces and seeks to examine creativity at the root. He utilizes examples from other writers--their lives, and what they have taught..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1998. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In 1976, [Robert] Creeley set off to visit nine countries in the Far East, to explore his sense of self in a foreign landscape. He found not only a "company" of fellow beings but also a transformed sense of life and subsequently a new family. He sees today that these three books in a single volume emphasize the..... More

Bolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Including Makeshift Bookmark Signed by Ken Mikolowski, Founder of Detroit's "Alternative Press." "Was That a Real Poem & Other Essays" was released in 1979 by famed anthologist Don Allen's Four Seasons Foundation out of Bolinas, California. The storied artistic community of Bolinas was once home to a venerable list of poets and artists during the 1960s and early 1970s. This book..... More

New York, NY: Granary Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "Robert Creeley and Elsa Dorfman bring us the real news of the different ways the word 'family' has been made to leap beyond its lexical meanings. Poet and photographer register how family is being re-envisioned by those who live as individuals within a 'securing center.' Beginning with, and subverting, "I wandered lonely as a cloud,' William Wordsworth's quintessential Romantic image of..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. (1/1000 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). "The process by which a story or a dream unfolds, even regardless of what either means, must be the same: inner contacts form......So, some of these demanded me, and I followed; some of them are story-stories, and some of the stories are dreams, and some of them are dreams written, and some are a...... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "When Olson and I talked at Black Mountain (when I visited after I'd gotten out of the Army), we talked of a concept of having Black Mountain Colleges in New York, St. Louis, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, etc., and not so much that our schools would be in the cities, but that the cities would become the schools..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. This late publication from Fielding Dawson reflects the time he spent as the Chairman of the PEN Prison Writing Committee. At the time of the publication of this book, Dawson was serving as the Creative Writing teacher at the infamous Sing Sing Prison, and the experience permeates the energy field of this book while dually informing its subject..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Trade Softcover Edition / Review Copy. Softcover. "This book, which I was tempted to call a novel, completed a circle which began with the writing of the story "Krazy Kat" at Black Mountain, and ended with the title story here; I had developed a prototype. But the work I had ahead of me, the change I was unwittingly--and unwillingly--approaching, hit and stayed..... More

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "This study, the first full-length consideration of Creeley's poetry, explores the design of the whole by focusing on the most important poems in each of his major volumes to date (all of which have been published by Charles Scribner's Sons): "For Love: Poems 1950-1960" (1962), "Words" (1967), "Pieces" (1969), and "A Day Book" (1972)." Creeley spoke of Louis Zukofsky's work..... 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