On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay
- ISBN-10
- 0520247914
- ISBN-13
- 9780520247918
- Series
- On Earth
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 89
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-04-17
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Robert Creeley
Description
When Robert Creeley died in March 2005, he was working on what was to be his final book of poetry. In addition to more than thirty new poems, many touching on the twin themes of memory and presence, this moving collection includes the text of the last paper Creeley gave--an essay exploring the late verse of Walt Whitman. Together, the essay and the poems are a retrospective on aging and the resilience of memory that includes tender elegies to old friends, the settling of old scores, and reflective poems on mortality and its influence on his craft.
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