This is interesting, Dominic, to see someone come to Creeley for the
first time, when many of us (especially in NA) have been reading him
for decades. Re: your reference to Yeats, I only heard Creeley read
once, but he was already aware of aging at that time, & his latest
poems were about that. Listening to him (he turned a huge audience of
about 1000 into a few people across a small table in the living room to
whom he whispered intimately), my thought was He has achieved a
presence like unto the older Yeats, sheer mastery speaking.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
O baby, get out of Egypt –
This history is not for you,
Get out of there, out of my path,
Out of my speechless mouth, the Egypt shrieking
a redundant, plundering tongue . . .
An ancient slang speaks through me like that.
Gwendolyn MacEwen
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