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Born in 1926 / Died in 2005 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Le Fou, Golden Goose Press, 1952.
  • The Kind of Act Of, Divers Press (Mallorca, Spain), 1953.
  • The Immoral Proposition, Jonathan Williams, 1953.
  • A Snarling Garland of Xmas Verse (published anonymously), Divers Press (Mallorca, Spain), 1954.
  • All That Is Lovely in Men, Jonathan Williams (Asheville, NC), 1955.
  • (With others) Ferrin and Others, Gerhardt (Germany), 1955.
  • If You, Porpoise Bookshop (San Francisco, CA), 1956.
  • The Whip, Migrant Books, 1957.
  • A Form of Women, Jargon Books (New York, NY), 1959.
  • For Love: Poems, 1950-1960, Scribner (New York, NY), 1962.
  • Distance, Terrence Williams, 1964.
  • Mister Blue, Insel-Verlag, 1964.
  • Two Poems, Oyez, 1964.
  • Hi There!, Finial Press, 1965.
  • Words (eight poems), Perishable Press, 1965.
  • Poems, 1950-1965, Calder & Boyars (London, England), 1966.
  • About Women, Gemini, 1966.
  • For Joel, Perishable Press, 1966.
  • A Sight, Cape Coliard Press, 1967.
  • Words (eighty-four poems), Scribner (New York, NY), 1967.
  • Robert Creeley Reads (with recording), Turret Books, 1967.
  • The Finger, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1968, enlarged edition published as The Finger Poems, 1966-1969, Calder & Boyars (London, England), 1970.
  • 5 Numbers (five poems), Poets Press (New York, NY), 1968, published as Numbers (text in English and German), translation by Klaus Reichert, Galerie Schmela (Dusseldorf, Germany), 1968.
  • The Charm: Early and Collected Poems, Perishable Press, 1968, expanded edition published as The Charm, Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco, CA), 1969.
  • Divisions and Other Early Poems, Perishable Press, 1968.
  • Pieces (fourteen poems), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1968.
  • The Boy (poem poster), Gallery Upstairs Press, 1968.
  • Mazatlan: Sea, Poets Press (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Pieces (seventy-two poems), Scribner (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Hero, Indianakatz (New York, NY), 1969.
  • A Wall, Bouwerie Editions (New York, NY), 1969.
  • For Betsy and Tom, Alternative Press, 1970.
  • For Benny and Sabrina, Samuel Charters, 1970.
  • America, Press of the Black Flag, 1970.
  • In London, Angel Hair Books, 1970.
  • Christmas: May 10, 1970, Lockwood Memorial Library, State University of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY), 1970.
  • St. Martin's, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1971.
  • 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0, drawings by Arthur Okamura, Shambhala (New York, NY), 1971.
  • Sea, Cranium Press, 1971.
  • For the Graduation, Cranium Press, 1971.
  • Change, Hermes Free Press, 1972.
  • One Day after Another, Alternative Press, 1972.
  • For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, 8 April 1887-7 October 1972 (limited edition), Sceptre Press (London, England), 1973.
  • His Idea, Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1973.
  • The Class of '47, Bouwerie Editions (New York, NY), 1973.
  • Kitchen, Wine Press, 1973.
  • Sitting Here, University of Connecticut Library, 1974.
  • Thirty Things, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1974.
  • Backwards, Sceptre Press (London, England), 1975.
  • Hello, Hawk Press (Christchurch, New Zealand), 1976, expanded edition published as Hello: A Journal, February 29-May 3, 1976, New Directions (New York, NY), 1978.
  • Away, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1976.
  • Presences (also see below), Scribner (New York, NY), 1976.
  • Selected Poems, Scribner (New York, NY), 1976, revised edition, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1991.
  • Myself, Sceptre Press (London, England), 1977.
  • Later, Toothpaste (West Branch, IA), 1978, expanded edition, New Directions (New York, NY), 1979.
  • Desultory Days, Sceptre Press (London, England), 1979.
  • Corn Close, Sceptre Press (London, England), 1980.
  • Mother As Voice, Am Here Books/Immediate Editions, 1981.
  • The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1982.
  • Echoes, Toothpaste (West Branch, IA), 1982, New Directions (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Going On: Selected Poems, 1958-1980, Dutton (New York, NY), 1983.
  • Mirrors, New Directions (New York, NY), 1983.
  • A Calendar: Twelve Poems, Coffee House Press (West Branch, IA), 1984.
  • The Collected Prose of Robert Creeley, Scribner (New York, NY), 1984.
  • Memories, Pig Press, 1984.
  • Memory Gardens, New Directions (New York, NY), 1986.
  • The Company, Burning Deck, 1988.
  • Window, edited by Richard Blevins, State University of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY), 1988.
  • (With Libby Larsen) A Creeley Collection: For Mixed Voices, Solo Tenor, Flute, Percussion, and Piano, E. C. Schirmer, 1989.
  • (With Francesco Clemente) 64 Pastels, Bruno Bischofberger, 1989.
  • Places, Shuffaloff Press, 1990.
  • Windows, New Directions (New York, NY), 1990.
  • Have a Heart, Limberlost Press, 1990.
  • Selected Poems, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1991.
  • The Old Days, Ambrosia Press, 1991.
  • Gnomic Verses, Zasterle Press, 1991.
  • A Poetry Anthology, Edmundson Art Foundation, 1992.
  • Life and Death, Grenfell Press, 1993, New Directions (New York, NY), 1998.
  • Loops: Ten Poems, Nadja, 1995.
  • Ligeia: A Libretto, Granary Books, 1996.
  • So There: Poems 1976-83, New Directions (New York, NY), 1998.
  • En Famille: A Poem by Robert Creeley, Granary Books, 1999.
  • (With Alex Katz) Edges, Peter Blum, 1999.
  • (With Max Gimblett and Alan Loney) The Dogs of Auckland, Holloway Press, 1998.
  • (With John Millei) Personal: Poems, Peter Koch, 1998.
  • (With Daisy DeCapite) Cambridge, Mass 1944, Boog Literature, 2000.
  • Thinking, Z Press, 2000.
  • Clemente's Images, Backwoods Broadsides, 2000.
  • For Friends, Drive He Sd Books, 2000.
  • (With Archie Rand, illustrations) Drawn and Quartered, Distributed Art Publishers, 2001.
  • Just In Time: Poems, 1984-1994, New Directions (New York, NY), 2001.
  • Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1975-2005, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 2006.
  • Selected Poems 1945-2005, edited by Benjamin Friedlander, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 2008.

EDITOR

  • Charles Olson, Mayan Letters, Divers Press (Mallorca, Spain), 1953.
  • (With Donald M. Allen, and contributor) New American Story, Grove (New York, NY), 1965, reprinted 2001.
  • (And author of introduction) Charles Olson, Selected Writings, New Directions (New York, NY), 1966.
  • (With Donald Allen, and contributor) The New Writing in the U.S.A., Penguin (New York, NY), 1967.
  • Whitman: Selected Poems, Penguin (New York, NY), 1973.
  • (And contributor) The Essential Burns, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1989.
  • Tim Prythero, Peters Corporation, 1990.
  • Olson, Selected Poems, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1993.
  • (With David Lehman) The Best American Poetry 2002, Scribner (New York, NY), 2002.

PROSE

  • The Gold Diggers (short stories), Divers Press (Mallorca, Spain), 1954, expanded edition published as The Gold Diggers and Other Stories, J. Calder, 1965.
  • The Island (novel), Scribner (New York, NY), 1963.
  • A Day Book (poems and prose), Scribner (New York, NY), 1972.
  • Mabel: A Story, and Other Prose (includes A Day Book and Presences), Calder & Boyars (London, England), 1976.
  • Collected Prose, Marion Boyars (New York, NY), 1984, corrected edition, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1988, Dalkey Archive Press (Chicago, IL), 2001.

NONFICTION

  • An American Sense (essay), Sigma Press, 1965.
  • A Quick Graph: Collected Notes and Essays, edited by Donald M. Allen, Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco, CA), 1970.
  • Notebook, Bouwerie Editions (New York, NY), 1972.
  • A Sense of Measure (essays), Calder & Boyars (London, England), 1972.
  • Inside Out (lecture), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1973.
  • The Creative (lecture), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1973.
  • Was That a Real Poem and Other Essays, Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco, CA), 1979.
  • Collected Essays, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1989.
  • Autobiography, Hanuman Books, 1990.
  • Day Book of a Virtual Poet (essays), Spuyten Duyvil (New York, NY), 1998.

OTHER

  • Listen (play; produced in London, 1972), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1972.
  • Contexts of Poetry: Interviews, 1961-1971, Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco, CA), 1973.
  • Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, ten volumes, edited by George F. Butterick, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1980-96.
  • Jane Hammond, Exit Art, 1989.
  • Irving Layton and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, edited by Ekbert Faas and Sabrina Reed, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1990.
  • Tales out of School: Selected Interviews, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1993.
  • Robert Creeley, reading with jazz musicians David Cast, Chris Massey, Steve Swallow, and David Torn accompanying, Cuneiform Records, 1998.
  • (Author of foreword) The Turning, Hilda Morley, Asphodel Press, 1998.
  • (With Elizabeth Licata and Amy Cappellazzo) In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations (from a traveling art show), University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1999.
  • (Contributor; with others) Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties, Rizzoli International (New York, NY), 2000.

Work represented in numerous anthologies, including The New American Poetry: 1945-1960, edited by Donald Allen, Grove (New York, NY), 1960; A Controversy of Poets, edited by Paris Leary and Robert Kelly, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1965; Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, Norton (New York, NY), 1973; The New Oxford Book of American Verse, edited by Richard Ellmann, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1976; and Poets' Encyclopedia, edited by Michael Andre, Unmuzzled Ox Press, 1980. Contributor to literary periodicals, including Paris Review, Nation, Black Mountain Review, Origin, Yugen, and Big Table. Founder and editor, Black Mountain Review, 1954-57; advisory editor, Sagetrieb, 1983—; advisory editor, American Book Review, 1983—; contributing editor, Formations, 1984—; and advisory editor, New York Quarterly, 1984—. The major collection of Creeley's manuscripts and correspondence is housed in Special Collections, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Other collections include the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (correspondence with William Carlos Williams), Humanities Research Center, University of Texas Libraries, Austin (correspondence with Ezra Pound), John M. Olin Library, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (manuscripts and correspondence predating 1965), Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington (manuscripts and correspondence with Cid Corman), Simon Fraser University Library, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada (correspondence with Richard Emerson), and University of Connecticut Library, Storrs (correspondence with Charles Olson).