Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews (Poets on Poetry) - Softcover

Creeley, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047206536X ISBN 13: 9780472065363

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 1994

Synopsis

Since the publication of Robert Creeley’s first book of poems, Le Fou, more than forty years ago, he has emerged as one of the most important and original voices in contemporary poetry. Tales Out of School selects five extended interviews that point to Creeley’s artistic influences and reveal the subjects that have preoccupied the poet’s imagination. The interviews cover a range of themes, including Creeley’s childhood and early writing, the influence of jazz on his work, the history of the Black Mountain School, the relationship of geography to the creative process, and the influences and friendship of other poets, including Pound, Williams, Ginsberg, Levertov, Duncan, and Olson. Taken together, the interviews provide an active context for and complement an understanding of this significant and prolific poet’s achievement.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 047206536X
• ISBN 13: 9780472065363
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208