Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 - Softcover

Creeley, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811214877 ISBN 13: 9780811214872

Publisher: New Directions, 2001

Synopsis

Three of Robert Creeley's collectionsMemory Gardens, Windows and Echoes (first time in paper)together in a convenient paperback edition. Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 continues the consolidation of Robert Creeley's later work begun with So There: Poems 1976-1983 (1998). Just in Time combines Memory Gardens (1986), Windows (1990), and Echoes (1994) in a volume that further validates the Lifetime Achievement Award conferred on Creeley by the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000. The poet himself comments about his later work: "Much echoes in these poems from the the necessary 'voyage to oblivion' they prepare for, but they are fact of no simple despair. Each day stays specific, possible, each relation defining, whether of life or of death. As my longtime mentor, W.C. Williams, best put it, 'The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned...' One continues and learns despite."

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Review:

Echoes succeeds beautifully. -- Publishers Weekly starred review

Creeley is absolutely mesmerizing in his ability to suspend and to define the passage of thought... -- Joyce Carol Oates, The New Republic

Everyday life told in an everyday language with a voice at once naive and sophisticated, simple yet profound. -- Booklist

His is a voice of the everyday struggle of the inner life: quiet, sometimes troubled, ultimately to be trusted. -- Tom Clark, The San Francisco Chronicle

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0811214877
• ISBN 13: 9780811214872
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308