Robert Creeley Knihy

Výbor poezie amerického básníka, který bývá řazen mezi tvůrce beat generation.

Výber z poézie Charlesa Olsona vo výbere Roberta Creeleyho, ktorý zbierku opatril aj úvodným slovom. Preložil Miroslav Holub.

První český výbor z veršů amerického básníka, prozaika a literárního teoretika, příslušníka básnické skupiny Black Mountain, který v rytmu amerického hovorového jazyka postihuje nejprostší a nejzákladnější věci života. Výbor básní ze sbírek For Love (1962), Words (1967), Pieces (1969), A Day Book (1972) a Away (1976).

This collection features a curated selection from George Oppen's seven published books, showcasing his poetic evolution. Edited by Robert Creeley, it includes Oppen's only essay, "A Mind's Own Place," and "Twenty-Six Fragments," which he wrote on various scraps. The volume also contains a chronology and bibliography by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, enhancing its scholarly value. Celebrated for his precision and depth, Oppen's work offers profound insights, making this anthology an ideal resource for teaching and exploring his literary legacy.

When Robert Creeley died in March 2005, he was working on what was to be his final book of poetry. In addition to more than thirty new poems, many touching on the twin themes of memory and presence, this moving collection includes the text of the last paper Creeley gave--an essay exploring the late verse of Walt Whitman. Together, the essay and the poems are a retrospective on aging and the resilience of memory that includes tender elegies to old friends, the settling of old scores, and reflective poems on mortality and its influence on his craft.

"Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential of the postwar American poets. His Selected Letters, covering the years 1945-2005 are a foundational document in the recent history of North American letters. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound; peers such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac and mentees such as Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Susan Howe, and Tom Raworth, Creeley helped forge a new poetry that re-imagined writing for his and subsequent generations. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley's letters carry the clear mark of consummate literary artistry and document the life, work, and times of one of our greatest writers"--

Der Lyriker Creeley, der zusammen mit Charles Olson zu den führenden Vertretern der "Black Mountain Group" gehört, erzählt in seinem Roman von einem amerikanischen Schriftsteller, der sich mit seiner Familie auf eine Mittelmeerinsel zurückzieht. Die Sehnsucht nach Halt und Sicherheit - Motto: "Die Leute versuchen, mit einer anwachsenden Verzweiflung zu leben und zu etwas zu kommen, einem Ort oder einer Person. Sie wollen eine Insel, auf welcher die Welt endlich ein Ort, umschrieben von sichtbaren Horizonten, sein wird" - treibt ihn an diesen begrenzten, überschaubaren Ort, um aus der Zerrissenheit seiner Geschichten einen lebensstiftenden Sinn zu finden. Der handlungsarme, philosophische Roman dürfte nur einen sehr begrenzten Leserkreis ansprechen