It is a wonderful essay, so I too thank you Alison for finding it for
us.
Yes, as Stephen says, it seems a meditation on Creeley's own aging &
death to come, but also, as always with him, a unique way of saying.
I took this as central to his poetics as implied throughout (a widely
generous poetics, too, as his varied citations demonstrate):
'Yet poetry is still thought of, insistently, as a product, as
something answering either to a determined definition or else to a use
not necessarily its own.' This being an attitude he fought in all his
writing, & I honour him for that too.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
I don’t need to
hold back here
in the union
of forms
Charles Olson
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