Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley ( born May 21, 1926 in Arlington, Massachusetts, † 30 March 2005 in Odessa, Texas) was an American poet and author of more than 60 books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse technique differed from the representatives of this school. He was friends with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg and John Wieners.
He taught for many years in Buffalo (New York). He lived in Waldoboro (Maine), Buffalo and Providence (Rhode Iceland ), where he taught at Brown University. He received the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts. From 1943, he attended Harvard, but interrupted his studies to serve in the American Field Service in Burma and India in 1944-5. In 1946 he returned to Harvard, earned his bachelor's degree but in 1955 at Black Mountain College. The Master's degree he earned in 1960 from the University of New Mexico. He began his academic career by teaching two semesters at Black Mountain College, taught at various universities and eventually became in 1967 Professor of English Literature at the " Black Mountain II", that is, at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Works
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- The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1989.
- The Immoral Proposition. Jonathan Williams, Karlsruhe -Durlach 1953.
- Mister Blue. Sixteen stories. Translated by Klaus Reichert. Island, Frankfurt 1964.
- The island. Novel. Island, Frankfurt 1965. Translator Ernst Jandl.
- Poems. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1967, Edition Suhrkamp 227, American and German - transfer and with an afterword by Klaus Reichert
- Poems. Berlin Literary Colloquium Berlin LCB 1984 75 American and German -. Translated by Michael Mundhenk.
- Poems. From the American Klaus Reichert. Residenz, Salzburg 1988. 343 S
- Mable. A story. . Residenz, Salzburg 1989 Übers: Erwin Einzinger.
- The gold digger. Narratives. From the American Klaus Reichert. Residenz, Salzburg 1992
- Hello. A travel journal. 29 February to 3 May 1976 Droschl, Graz 1992 poems, bilingual.. . Translator: Wilfried Prantner
- Autobiography. Residenz, Salzburg 1993.
- Window. New poems. From the American Klaus Reichert. Residenz, Salzburg 1997
- All it means forever. Poems. From the American Mirko Bonné. Young and Young, Salzburg and Vienna, 2006.