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Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan: A World of Contradiction
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Robert Creeley's long and productive writing life has resolutely
witnessed
personal rather than public change. Notoriously self-absorbed, his reticent
poetry is fiercely individual in style and solipsistic in outlook. Like
the
poet, a man of few words, wryly humorous and intelligently self-contained,
Creeley's poems seem determined “to say as little as possible
as often as possible.” Yet the tightly crafted economy of this poetic
idiom
masks a curious amplitude which is easy to overlook. The tension
between the persistent “circularities” in Creeley's work,
his concern with
the dualistic energies of contradiction and paradox, and the brevity with
which such concerns are typically addressed, is worth noting, especially
in
the light of Creeley's abiding friendship with fellow poet, Robert
Duncan,
of whom Creeley once remarked:I've always felt very close to him as a writer, although our modes
of writing must
seem to readers quite apart. I tend to write very sparely, and Robert has
a lovely,
relaxed and generous kind of movement. But…[he] showed
me kinds of content
that I hadn't previously recognized.
Title: Robert Creeley and Robert
Duncan: A World of Contradiction
Description:
Robert Creeley's long and productive writing life has resolutely
witnessed
personal rather than public change.
Notoriously self-absorbed, his reticent
poetry is fiercely individual in style and solipsistic in outlook.
Like
the
poet, a man of few words, wryly humorous and intelligently self-contained,
Creeley's poems seem determined “to say as little as possible
as often as possible.
” Yet the tightly crafted economy of this poetic
idiom
masks a curious amplitude which is easy to overlook.
The tension
between the persistent “circularities” in Creeley's work,
his concern with
the dualistic energies of contradiction and paradox, and the brevity with
which such concerns are typically addressed, is worth noting, especially
in
the light of Creeley's abiding friendship with fellow poet, Robert
Duncan,
of whom Creeley once remarked:I've always felt very close to him as a writer, although our modes
of writing must
seem to readers quite apart.
I tend to write very sparely, and Robert has
a lovely,
relaxed and generous kind of movement.
But…[he] showed
me kinds of content
that I hadn't previously recognized.
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