Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005. Poems. Selections
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Robert Creeley, 1983 July 25 Class, Part 1, 1983 July 25
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Identifier: naropa_creeley_19830725_part01
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Robert Creeley presents a class focused on the moving what's "inside--the imaginable, emotional, and conceptual world of the writer--into contact with what's outside--the world of other people, events, and situations." Creeley begins his discussion with William Carlos Williams' movement between thought and event in "Desert Music." He then presents examples of the ways in which the different imaginable worlds of individuals interact to create "external" situations, referring to John Glenn,...
Dates:
1983 July 25
Robert Creeley, 1983 July 25 Class, Part 2, 1983 July 25
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Identifier: naropa_creeley_19830725_part02
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Robert Creeley presents a class focused on the moving what's "inside--the imaginable, emotional, and conceptual world of the writer--into contact with what's outside--the world of other people, events, and situations." Creeley presents certain LSD experiences as examples of what happens when an experience cannot connect to the wider social context of meaning, and contrasts science's concern with the general to art's concern with the exception. Other topics covered include the dangers of...
Dates:
1983 July 25
Robert Creeley, 1983 July 26 Class, 1983 July 26
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Identifier: naropa_creeley_19830726
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Creeley's lecture focuses on the work of Louis Zukofsky and Gertrude Stein. Creeley reads from a selection of both writers' work, especially focusing on Zukofsky's "A" and Stein's "Composition As Explanation."
Dates:
1983 July 26
Robert Creeley, 1983 July 27 Class, 1983 July 27
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Identifier: naropa_creeley_19830727
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Creeley spends the majority of the class discussing various works by Charles Olson, reading his "Hotel Steinplatz, Berlin, December 25." Creeley, Ginsberg, and class have a lengthy discussion about symbolism.
Dates:
1983 July 27
Robert Creeley, 1983 July 28 Class, 1983 July 28
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Identifier: naropa_creeley_19830728
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Creeley spends the majority of his lecture speaking and reading from a letter from Jeremy Prine to Ed Dorn. Creeley also reads Charles Olson's poem "Letter 27 Withheld."
Dates:
1983 July 28
Robert Creeley, 1983 July 29 Class, 1983 July 29
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Identifier: naropa_creeley_19830729
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Creeley spends the class reading and discussing the work of Charles Olson and Robert Duncan.
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1983 July 29