So There: Poems 1976-1983 (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Creeley, Robert

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9780811213974: So There: Poems 1976-1983 (New Directions Paperbook)

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ISBN 10: 0811213978 ISBN 13: 9780811213974

Publisher: New Directions, 1998

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So There: Poems 1976-83 combines three earlier collections of Robert Creeley's work published by New Directions –– Hello: A Journal, February 29-May 3, 1976 (published 1978); Later (1979); and Mirrors (1983).

This first gathering of the poet's later work continues but also stands in contrast to his early poems as presented in the monumental Collected Poems 1945-1975 (University of California Press, 1982). Few poets have so clear a demarcation in their work. In 1976, Creeley set off to visit nine countries in the Far East, to explore his sense of self in a foreign landscape. He found not only a "company" of fellow beings but also a transformed sense of life and subsequently a new family. He sees today that these three books in a single volume emphasize the "determined change in my life they are the issue of." They record a watershed period when Creeley "moved beyond his early influences to become a unique master" (Publishers Weekly, about Mirrors).

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Creeley puts down his perceptions but avoids the all-too Western tendency of drawing conclusions. And by not doing so, the poet is able to become one with this foreign environment. What's refreshing is this connection springs not from philosophic ruminations, which in our culture are all-too-often tied into knots with polysyllabic words, but from just being open to existence. -- Home News Tribune, 25 April 1999

His influence on contemporary American poetry has probably been more deeply felt than that of any other writer of his generation. -- Terry Southern, The New York Times Book Review

The slippage between wandering and wondering, Creeley's engagement with accident and memory, achieves its most compelling articulation in...So There. -- Oyster Boy Review, Miles Efron, Summer 2000

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