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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...More >
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by Robert Creeley
As I was walking
I came upon
chance walking
the same road upon.
As I sat down
by chance to move
later
if and as I might,
light the wood was,
light and green,
and what I saw
before I had not seen.
It was a lady
accompanied
by goat men
leading her.
Her hair held earth.
Her eyes were dark.
A double flute
made her move.
"O love,
where are you
leading
me now?"
From Selected Poems by Robert Creeley. Copyright © 1991 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Originally published in For Love:
Poems 1950-1960 (Scribner, 1962).
Audio Clip
April 16, 1964 From the Academy Audio Archive