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Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1926. He attended...
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems about Language
		Etymological Dirge by Heather McHugh

		Having Words by Alfred Corn

		I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone by Rainer Maria Rilke

		please advise stop [I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop] by Rusty Morrison

		Poem by James Schuyler

		Primitive State [excerpt] by Anselm Berrigan

		The Composition of the Text by Adriano Spatola

		The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert

		Tonight No Poetry Will Serve by Adrienne Rich

		What Is an Epigram? by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

		Yes by Denise Duhamel

		Poems about Music
		A Book Of Music by Jack Spicer

		A Score for Tourist Movies by Mary Austin Speaker

		Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Music by John Dryden

		B-Sides from my Idol Tryouts by Harmony Holiday

		Beagle or Something by April Bernard

		Fiddler Jones by Edgar Lee Masters

		Go Greyhound by Bob Hicok

		Here and Now by Stephen Dunn

		Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio by Carl Sandburg

		Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness by John Donne

		Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

		Interlude: Still Still by Robin Behn

		Latin & Soul by Victor Hernández Cruz

		Little Fugue by Marianne Boruch

		Lost Fugue for Chet by Lynda Hull

		Lullaby in Blue by Betsy Sholl

		On 52nd Street by Philip Levine

		Passing Through Albuquerque by John Balaban

		Record by Katrina Vandenberg

		Street Music by Robert Pinsky

		The Banjo Player by Fenton Johnson

		The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1974 by Quincy Troupe

		The Everyday Enchantment of Music by Mark Strand

		The Guitar by Federico García Lorca

		The Last Evening by Steven Kronen

		The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear

		The Supremes by Mark Jarman

		The Waltz We Were Born For by Walt McDonald

		The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

		The World Doesn’t Want Me Anymore, and it Doesn’t Know It by Sean Singer

		Two Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance by John Cage, read by Susan Howe

		Untitled by David Meltzer

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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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