Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley was born in Arlington, near Boston, in 1926; he lost an eye at the age of two in an accident, then his father, a physician, when he was four, and grew up on a farm in West Acton. He left Harvard without a degree, served in the American Field Service in Burma and India, raised poultry and pigeons in New Hampshire, then taught at Black Mountain College, whose review he edited. He published more than sixty books, was State Poet of New York, and taught for thirty-seven years at Buffalo. He died in Odessa, Texas, in 2005.

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• PoetryFor Love: Poems 1950-1960Robert Creeley · 1962Literature