Robert Creeley - 1926
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Robert Creeley was born in Arlington Massachusetts on May 15, 1926. Creeley attended the Harvard University from 1942 to 1943 when he decided to take a year off and work as a field person in the American field service. Once in the service, he was sent to Burma India where he was a truck driver at the end of WWII. Creeley returned to Harvard University in 1945 then left school one term before he was to graduate in 1947.
During the year of 1951 Creeley and his wife spent a year in Aix-en-Provence, France, and then moved on to live in Mallorca, Spain. Living in Mallorca lead Creeley set on of his novels, The Island (1963) another of Robert Creeley's accomplishments was being able to establish his own printing press to print his own books the press was called Divers Press.
In 1954, Robert Creeley graduated from Black Mountain University with a B. A. degree. After graduation Robert Creeley was invited to join the faculty of Black Mountain College by accredited poet, scholar and theorist Charles Olson. As a member of the faculty of Black Mountain College Robert Creeley founded and was editor of the Black Mountain Review.
In 1955, Robert Creeley and his wife when their separate ways and left the college, this caused Creeley to embark on a road that would eventually lead him to become a Poet. Creeley was first published in 1952 when he published The Mad Man Robert Creeley has worked and thought through out this country and the world. Robert Creeley currently works at the New York State University at Buffalo where he has worked since 1966.
II. Literary Works
Poetry
For Love (1962)
Words (1967)
The Charm: Early and Uncollected Poems (1968)
A Day Book 1972
Hello: A Journal, February 23-May 3, 1976 (1978)
Later: New Poems (1970)
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1945-1975 (1982)
Mirrors (1983)
Memory Gardens (1986)
Windows (1990)
Selected Poems (1991)
Echoes (1994)
Life & Death (1998)
Complete Poetry (1997)
New Mexico Poetry Renaissance (Red Crain Literature Series) ( 1994)
A Poetry Anthology (1992)
Voices of the Lady: Collected Poems (1998)
Fiction
The Iland (1963)
The Gold Diggers (1965)
Precences: A Text For Marisol (1976)
Mabel: A Story (1976)
The Collected Prose of Robert Creeley (1988)
The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley (1989)
John Altoon (1998)
Essays
A Quick Graph Collected Notes and Essays (1970)
Was That a Real Poem and Other Essays (1979)
Autobiography (1990)
Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews (1993)
Collected Prose (1997)
Good Blond and Others (1993)
Memory Gardens (1986)
Places (1990)
This essay was submitted by a student of
Marylin Dykens, a teacher at Rome Free Academy in Rome, New York.