Selected Works by Robert Creeley

BOOKS

Le Fou (Columbus, Ohio: Golden Goose Press, 1952);

The Immoral Proposition (Karlsruhe-Durlach/Baden, Germany: Jonathan Williams, 1953);

The Kind of Act Of (Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press, 1953);

The Gold Diggers (Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press, 1954); enlarged as The Gold Diggers and Other Stories (London: John Calder, 1965; New York: Scribners, 1965);

A Snarling Garland of Xmas Verses, anonymous (Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press, 1954);

All That Is Lovely in Men (Asheville, N.C.: Jonathan Williams, 1955);

If You (San Francisco: Porpoise Bookshop, 1956);

The Whip (Worcester, England: Migrant Books, 1957; Highland, N.C.: Jonathan Williams, 1957);

A Form of Women (New York: Jargon Books in association with Corinth Books, 1959; Fontwell, Arundel, Sussex, England: Centaur, 1960);

For Love: Poems 1950-1960 (New York: Scribners, 1962);

The Island (New York: Scribners, 1963; London: John Calder, 1964);

Words (Rochester, Mich.: Perishable Press, 1965; enlarged as Words New York: Scribners, 1967);

Poems 1950-1965 (London: Calder and Boyars, 1966);

The Charm: Early and Uncollected Poems (Mt. Horeb, Wisc.: Perishable Press, 1967; enlarged as The Charm: Early and Uncollected Poems (San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969; London: Calder and Boyars, 1971);

Robert Creeley Reads (London: Turret Books/Calder and Boyars, 1967);

A Sight (London, Cape Goliard, 1967);

Divisions and Other Early Poems (Mt. Horeb, Wisc.: Perishable Press, 1968);

The Finger (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968); enlarged as The Finger: Poems 1966-1969 (London: Calder and Boyars, 1970);

5 Numbers (New York: Poets Press, 1968);

Numbers (Stuttgart, Germany: Edition Domberger / Düsseldorf, Germany: Galerie Schmela, 1968);

Pieces (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968; New York: Scribners, 1969);

Mazatlan: Sea (San Francisco: Poets Press, 1969);

In London (Bolinas, Calif.: Angel Hair Books, 1970);

A Quick Graph: Collected Notes and Essays, edited by Donald Allen (San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970);

1234567890 (Berkeley: Shambala; San Francisco: Mudra, 1971);

St. Martin's (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971);

A Day Book (Berlin: Graphis, 1972); expanded edition including "In London," New York: Scribners, 1972);

Listen (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972);

A Sense of Measure (London: Calder and Boyars, 1972);

The Class of '47, with Joe Brainard (New York: Bouwerie Editions, 1973);

Contexts of Poetry: Interviews 1961-1971, edited by Donald Allen (Bolinas, Calif.: Four Seasons Foundation, 1973);

The Creative, issued as Sparrow 6 (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973);

For my mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, 8 April 1887-7 October 1972 (Rushden, England: Sceptre Press, 1973);

His Idea (Toronto: Coach House Press, 1973);

Inside Out, issued as Sparrow 14 (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973);

Thirty Things (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974);

Backwards (Knotting, England: Sceptre Press, 1975);

The Door: Selected Poems (Dusseldorf/München, Germany: S Press, 1975);

Away (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, 1976);

Hello (Christchurch, New Zealand: Hawk Press, 1976);

Mabel, A Story: and Other Prose (London: Marion Boyars, 1976);

Presences: A Text for Marisol (New York: Scribners, 1976);

Selected Poems (New York: Scribners, 1976);

Was That a Real Poem or Did You Just Make It Up Yourself , issued as Sparrow 40 (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, 1976); enlarged as Was That a Real Poem and Other Essays, edited by Donald Allen with a chronology by Mary Novik (Bolinas, Calif.: Four Seasons Foundation, 1979);

Mabel: A Story (Paris: Editions de l'Atelier Crommelynck, 1977);

Desultory Days (Knotting, Bedfordshire, England: Sceptre Press, 1978);

Myself (Knotting, Bedfordshire, England: Sceptre Press, 1977);

Thanks (Old Deerfield, Mass.: The Deerfield Press; Dublin, Ireland: The Gallery Press, 1977);

Hello: A Journal, February 29-May 3, 1976 (New York: New Directions, 1978; London: Marion Boyars, 1978);

Later: A Poem (West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1978);

Later (New York: New Directions, 1979; London: Marion Boyars, 1980);

Corn Close (Knotting, Bedfordshire, England: Sceptre Press, 1980);

Mother's Voice (Santa Barbara. Calif.: Am Here Books/Immediate Editions, 1981);

The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982);

Echoes (West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1982);

A Calendar 1984 (West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1983);

Mirrors (New York: New Directions, 1983);

The Collected Prose of Robert Creeley (New York and London: Marion Boyars, 1984; corrected edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988);

Memory Gardens (New York: New Directions, 1986);

The Company (Providence: Burning Deck, 1988);

Window (Buffalo: The Poetry/Rare Books Collection, SUNY at Buffalo, 1988);

7 & 6 (Albuquerque: Hoshour Gallery, 1988);

"Autobiography," Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, 10 (Detroit: Gale, 1989): 61-77; reprinted as Autobiography (Madras, India and New York: Hanuman, 1990); also reprinted in Tom Clark, Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place (NY: New Directions, 1993): 122-144.

The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1989);

Dreams (New York: Periphery / Salient Seedling Press, 1989);

It (Zurich, Switzerland: Bruno Bischofberger, 1989);

Robert Creeley: a Selection, 1945-1987 (New York: Dia Art Foundation, 1989);

Have a Heart (Boise: Limberlost Press, 1990);

Places (Buffalo: Shuffaloff Press, 1990);

Windows (New York: New Directions, 1990);

Gnomic Verses (La Laguna, Canary Islands: Zasterle Press, 1991);

The Old Days (Tarzana, Calif.: Ambrosia Press, 1991);

Selected Poems (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991);

Life & Death (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1993);

Echoes (New York: New Directions, 1994);

Loops: Ten Poems (Kripplebush, NY: Nadja, 1995).

RADIO SCRIPTS:

Listen, London, 1972.

OTHER:

Black Mountain Review, edited by Creeley (No. 1-7, Spring 1954-Autumn 1957); reprinted with an added introduction as Black Mountain Review (Vol. 1-3, New York: AMS Press, 1969);

Charles Olson, Mayan Letters, edited with a preface by Creeley (Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press, 1953; London: Cape, 1968);

New American Story, edited by Creeley and Donald Allen (New York: Grove, 1965; Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1971);

Selected Writings of Charles Olson, edited with an introduction by Creeley (New York: New Directions, 1966);

The New Writing in the USA, edited by Creeley and Allen with an introduction by Creeley (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1967);

Whitman: Selected Poems, edited with an introduction by Creeley (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1973);

The Essential Burns, edited with an introduction by Creeley (New York: Ecco, 1989);

Charles Olson, Selected Poems, edited with an introduction by Creeley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).

George F. Butterick, ed., Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, 8 vols. (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, 1980 - ); volume 9 edited by Richard Blevins;

Ekbert Faas and Sabrina Reed eds., Irving Layton & Robert Creeley : the Complete Correspondence, 1953-1978 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990).

Donald Allen, ed., Contexts of Poetry: Interviews 1961-1971 (Bolinas, Calif.: Four Seasons Foundation, 1973);

Ekbert Faas, Towards a New American Poetics: Essays and Interviews (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, 1979): 165-198;

Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993).

Willard Fox, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Robert Duncan: A Reference Guide (Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1989): 1-170;

Mary Novik, Robert Creeley: An Inventory, 1945-1970 (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1973; Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1973);

Vincent Prestianni, "Robert Creeley: An Analytical Bibliography of Bibliographies," Sagetrieb 10, 1-2 (1991): 209-213.

Selected References:

Charles Altieri, "Robert Creeley's Poetics of Conjecture," Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984): 101-131;

Charles Bernstein, "Hearing 'Here': Robert Creeley's Poetics of Duration," Contents Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986): 292-304; "Creeley's Eye and the Fiction of the Self," Review of Contemporary Fiction, forthcoming;

George F. Butterick, "Editor's Introduction," Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, Vol. 1 (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, 1980): ix-xv;

Douglas Calhoun, ed., "Robert Creeley issue," Athanor 4 (Spring 1973);

Tom Clark, The Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990); Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place (New York: New Directions, 1993);

Joseph M. Conte, "One Thing Finding Its Place with Another: Robert Creeley's Pieces," Unending Design: the Forms of Postmodern Poetry (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1991): 87-104;

Robert Creeley, "Thinking of You," The Review of Contemporary Fiction 8, no. 3 (Fall 1988): 82-85; Lecture, Berkeley Poetry Conference (July 23, 1965) [audiotape]; Letter to William Matheson, in William V. Spanos, ed., Robert Creeley: a Gathering, a special issue of Boundary 2: A Journal of Postmodern Literature 6, no. 3/7, no. 1 (1978): 488-90; Reading at the University of Buffalo (March 20, 1991) [audiotape];

Robert Duncan, "A Reading of Thirty Things," Boundary 2 6, no. 3-7, no.1 (Spring/Fall 1978): 293-299;

Richard Eberhardt, interview with Robert Creeley (Washington: Library of Congress, June 1, 1961) [Audio tape];

Cynthia Edelberg, Robert Creeley's Poetry: a Critical Introduction (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978);

Ekbert Faas, "Robert Creeley," Towards a New American Poetics: Essays and Interviews (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979): 147-164;

Arthur L. Ford, Robert Creeley (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978);

Edward Halsey Foster, "Robert Creeley, Poetics of Solitude," Understanding the Black Mountain Poets (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994): 81-121;

Stephen Fredman, "'A Life Tracking Itself': Robert Creeley's Presences: A Text for Marisol," Poet's Prose: the Crisis in American Verse, 2nd. ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990): 57-100;

Ernesto Livon Grosman, interview with Robert Creeley (New York: Radio Reading Project, 1992) [Radio broadcast];

Robert Hass, "Creeley: His Metric," Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (New York: Ecco, 1984): 150-160;

Anselm Hollo, Sojourner Microcosms (Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1977);

Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian, Creeley (Buffalo: Documentary Research, 1988) [Motion picture];

Lewis MacAdam and John Dorr, Robert Creeley (Los Angeles: Lannan Foundation, 1990) [Videorecording];

Ann Mandel, Measures: Robert Creeley's Poetry (Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1974);

"Multiples & Objects & Books," Print Collector's Newsletter 24 (Jan/Feb 1994): 227-28;

Charles Olson, "For R. C.," Olson: the Journal of the Charles Olson Archives 6 (Fall, 1976); Selected Writings of Charles Olson (New York: New Directions, 1966);

Sherman Paul, "A Letter on Rosenthal's 'Problems of Robert Creeley,'" Boundary 2: A Journal of Postmodern Literature 3, no. 3 (Spring 1975): 747-60; The Lost America of Love: Rereading Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Robert Duncan (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981): 1-73;

Ted Pearson, in "Robert Creeley and the Politics of the Person," Poetics Journal 9 (June 1991): 159-164;

Marjorie Perloff, "Four Times Five: Robert Creeley's The Island," Boundary 2 6, no. 3-7, no.1 (Spring/Fall 1978): 491-507;

M. L. Rosenthal, "Problems of Robert Creeley," Parnassus 2, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 1973): 205-14;

Meyer Rubinstein, review of 7&6 in Flash Art no. 152 (May/June 1990): 188;

Ron Silliman, "Language, Realism, Poetry," In the American Tree (Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine at Orono, 1986): xv-xxiii;

William V. Spanos, "'The Fact of Firstness': A Preface," Robert Creeley: a Gathering, a special issue of Boundary 2: A Journal of Postmodern Literature 6, no. 3/7, no. 1 (1978): 1-8;

Warren Tallman, Three Essays on Creeley (Toronto: Coach House Press, 1973);

Carroll F. Terrell, ed., Robert Creeley: the Poet's Workshop (Orono: National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine at Orono, 1984);

Jack Tworkov in The New American Painting As Shown in Eight European Countries, 1958-1959. Reprint ed. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1972).;

Robert Von Hallberg, "Robert Creeley and John Ashbery: Systems," American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985): 36-61;

John Wilson, ed. Robert Creeley's Life and Work : A Sense of Increment (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988);

William Carlos Williams, Imaginations. New York: New Directions, 1970.

Papers:

The major collection of Creeley manuscripts and correspondence are housed in Special Collections, Stanford University, Stanford, California;

Other collections include: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut (correspondence with William Carlos Williams);

Humanities Research Center, University of Texas Libraries, Austin (correspondence with Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky);

John M. Olin Library, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (manuscripts and correspondence predating 1965);

Lilly Library, University, Bloomington (manuscripts and correspondance with Cid Corman);

Simon Fraser University Library, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada (correspondence with Richard Emerson);

University of Connecticut Library, Storrs (correspondence with Charles Olson).