2001, Jagjaguwar
Jagjaguwar Correspondent is proud to announce the release of a new recording of the internationally renowned poet Robert Creeley. Captured on tape at his home in Waldoboro, Maine in the summer of 2000, the poet reads a selection of new and previously uncollected poems. This marks the first occasion in which Mr. Creeley has appeared unaccompanied on a CD, his work read in all its bare and vital intimacy.
His landmark importance as a modern and uncompromising voice in the 1950`s and 60`s has continued through subsequent decades with work as crucial and innovative as in those formative years. He has been a distinct and relentless documentarian of age and its changing perceptions. From the tender, inquisitive addresses of a father to his growing children to meditations on growth, memory and reality, these fifteen pieces reveal a poet in maturity. Among them is a 25-part poem in response to the paintings of Francesco Clemente. William Carlos Williams said of Creeley, "The subt
Tracklisting
Disc 1
| 1 | For Hannah's 14th Birthday |
| 2 | For Will |
| 3 | "Wild Nights, Wild Nights" |
| 4 | "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang..." |
| 5 | En Famille |
| 6 | Conversion to Her |
| 7 | Clemente's Images |
| 8 | As If |
| 9 | Possibilities |
| 10 | Anya |
| 11 | Thinking |
| 12 | "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer..." |
| 13 | For the Phi Beta Kappa Ceremony |
| 14 | Cambridge, Mass 1944 |
| 15 | Place to Be |
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