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Earthbound: Artful, Polished, Acute

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On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay, Robert Creeley, University of California Press

by Brian Campbell
08.08.2009

Robert Creeley died in Odessa, Texas, at sunrise one day in March, 2005. On his writing table was a black folder containing thirty-odd carefully typed poems; these, along with an essay he had written the previous year, were put together by his wife and other editors into a final collection, On Earth: Last Poems and [...]

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An Audacious Exploration of the Psychic Landscape

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Passenger Flight, Brian Campbell, Signature Editions

by Roger Sauls
19.07.2009

The long and short of the prose poem is that it’s a product of deep inner contradictions. Its prose wants the freedom to wander, while its poetry wants the brevity of a few luminous words. It rejects the primacy of either of its parents in favor of a synthesis of both. It delights in frustrating [...]

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