"The subtlest feeling for the measure that I encounter anywhere
except in the verses of Ezra Pound."--William Carlos Williams
"It is a study, how Creeley lands syntax down the alley, and his
vocabulary-pure English-to hit meters and rhymes all of which are
spares and strikes."--Charles Olson
"Robert Creeley has created a noble body of poetry that extends the
work of his predecessors Pound, Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson, and
provides like them a method for his successors in exploring our new
American poetic consciousness."--Allen Ginsberg
"His succinctness is like the unfettered flashing of a diamond."
--John Ashbery
"Robert Creeley was one of the great giants of 20th Century
American poetry. This collection is his monument." --Paul Auster
"American poetry is unimaginable and, happily, unknowable without
Creeley."--Andrei Codrescu, author of "it was today: new poems"
"Creeley is a touchstone for me-a measure of what poetry is. He is
a genius of the sensorium as Kerouac was and a master of the ear as
is Miles Davis. He is a carver in space like Van Gogh."--Michael
McClure
"There is no poetry more vivid, immediate, or telling than Robert
Creeley's. His "Collected Poems" extends the achievement of
Dickinson, Whitman, and Williams into postwar America. Creeley's
excavation of particular words, images, and sentiments resonate
beyond the pages of this book into the fabric of everyday life.
This is American invention at its best, as necessary as the air we
breathe and the ground we walk on."--Charles Bernstein
"'It isn't what a poet says that counts as a work of art, ' William
Carlos Williams once wrote, 'it's what he makes, with such
intensity of perception thatit lives with an intrinsic movement of
its own to verify its authenticity.' I can't think of another
contemporary poet whose acute sensitivity to the particular event
of making (and in poetry "making" includes "breaking") each written
line is as consummately fine-tuned as Robert Creeley's."--Susan
Howe
"He was the main support in the old house of poetry--the main
beam."--C.D. Wright, Brown University alumni newsletter
"There is no poet like Creeley. His multiple subjectivities and
magic syllables have kept us curious and honest. Never a false
step, never a less than tender heart for the sound, and the
brilliant cognitive, often fierce power therein. What a glorious
long life in writing. These late poems keep the brilliant tempo. We
are very lucky he is still so much among us."--Anne Waldman
"Robert Creeley transformed the momentary, spontaneous music of
being alive into a profoundly enduring American art: brilliant,
necessary, impeccably scored. He made it new for always."--Peter
Gizzi
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