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Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley
The author of over sixty books of poetry, Robert Creeley helped to define an emerging counter-tradition to the literary establishment—a postwar poetry originating with Pound and Williams...
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Water Music  
by Robert Creeley

The words are a beautiful music.

The words bounce like in water.

Water music,
loud in the clearing

off the boats,
birds, leaves.

They look for a place
to sit and eat--

no meaning,
no point.



From The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975. Copyright © 1983 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Originally published in Words (Scribner, 1967).
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