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Robert Creeley
Also known as: Robert CREELEY, Creeley, Robert White
Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1991, he joined colleagues Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Raymond Federman, Robert Bertholf, and Dennis Tedlock in founding the Poetics Program at Buffalo. Creeley lived in Waldoboro, Maine, Buffalo, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught at Brown University. He was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, and was much beloved as a generous presence in many poets' lives.
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— from The island
Most acclaimed
Echoes
1989
Suppose you had an evil double, an inhuman twin who could act on all your most perverse, secret desires. Something strange and unnatural is happening in a once-peaceful community in California. A serial killer is preying on young women, and all clues point to the town's seemingly ineffectual mayor. A former starlet is blackmailed with X-rated photos of a sexual spree she cannot remember. A scrupulously honest prosecutor appears to be making deals with gangsters. A powerful senator is murdered in broad daylight. All through San Paradiso, in fact, the worst fantasies of ordinary people are becoming alarmingly—and terrifyingly—real. And at the center of it all is Laura Bennett, a young reporter for the San Paradiso Herald, who senses, despite all logic and common sense, that not only is there a hellish conspiracy behind all these bizarre and menacing events, but that she herself may be the source of a demonic evil beyond all mortal comprehension—or else its ultimate victim. (From book's inner-cover.)
The island
Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy. But Birdie, a woman who prides herself on preparing for every possibility, could never have predicted the late-night phone call from Chess, abruptly announcing that she's cancelled her engagement. It's only the first hint of what will be a summer of upheavals and revelations. Before the dust has even begun to settle, far worse news arrives, sending Chess into a tailspin of despair. Reluctantly taking a break from the first new romance she's embarked on since the recent end of her 30-year marriage, Birdie circles the wagons and enlists the help of her younger daughter Tate and her own sister India. Soon all four are headed for beautiful, rustic Tuckernuck Island, off the coast of Nantucket, where their family has summered for generations. No phones, no television, no grocery store - a place without distractions where they can escape their troubles. But throw sisters, daughters, ex-lovers, and long-kept secrets onto a remote island, and what might sound like a peaceful getaway becomes much more. Before summer has ended, dramatic truths are uncovered, old loves are rekindled, and new loves make themselves known. It's a summertime story only Elin Hilderbrand can tell, filled with the heartache, laughter, and surprises that have made her page-turning, bestselling novels as much a part of summer as a long afternoon on a sunny beach.