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| 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
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by Robert Creeley |
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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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