Echoes

Robert Creeley

ISBN 10: 0915124599 / ISBN 13: 9780915124596

Published by The Toothpaste Press, 1982

About this Item

Echoes, a collection of poems by Robert Creeley. 24 pages. Edition of 2000. Printed on Strathmore Grandee text paper and sewn into Fabriano Ingres wrappers. Fine condition.

Seller Inventory # C0247

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Echoes
• Publisher: The Toothpaste Press
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0915124599
• ISBN 13: 9780915124596
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry Books

About this title

Synopsis

Limited. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. One of 2000 copies in gray wrappers. A Fine copy.

From the Back Cover

In his new collection of poems, Robert Creeley continues to explore the limits and resonances, public and personal, of age. Indeed, the title itself, Echoes, recurs throughout his poetry of the last two decades. Thus "Sonnets" speaks out against the waste of human violence and dogmatism ("Come round again the banal/belligerence almost a/flatulent echo of times"), while the book's closing sequence, "Roman Sketchbook", contemplates with wit and affection the measure of one's literal body in echoing time and place. Creeley as ever articulates the givens of life, its daily fact and possibility, with careful, concise invention. What wind's echo, uplifted spirit? Archaic feelings flood the body. Ah! accomplished.