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Robert Creeley
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
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
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
Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Music
by John Dryden
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 Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1974
by Quincy Troupe
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
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.



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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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