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Robert Creeley | |
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Born | Arlington, Massachusetts, US | May 21, 1926
Died | March 30, 2005 Odessa, Texas, US | (aged 78)
Education | Harvard University Black Mountain College (BA) |
Genre | Poetry |
Literary movement | Modernism, Post-Modernism |
Notable works | For Love |
Notable awards | Bollingen Prize, 1999, Robert Frost Medal, 1987 |
Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005)[1] was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1991, he joined colleagues Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Raymond Federman, Robert Bertholf, and Dennis Tedlock in founding the Poetics Program at Buffalo. Creeley lived in Waldoboro, Buffalo, and Providence, where he taught at Brown University. He was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.