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Robert Creeley: A Biography

By Ekbert Faas

Book information

Publisher
Mcgill-Queens University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0773521739, 9780773521735
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (38190604 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
513\540
Time added
2016-11-13 03:55:21
Authors;Arts & Literature;Biographies & Memoirs;Po

Description

In this biography Ekbert Faas pioneers a new kind of "life-writing." It tells its stories through the emotions, thoughts, and, above all, language of the dramatis personae, exchanging the authorial omniscience of traditional biography for an utter fidelity to sources. Allowing for contradictory viewpoints, anecdotes are told and re-told, letting Creeley reveal himself beneath the myths created by self-invention, wishful thinking, and, sometimes, distortion. Excerpts from autobiographical writings by the poet's first wife, Ann McKinnon, complete this intriguingly colourful and complex picture.

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