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Show Contemporary poet : reads works By Hal Noakes The University community was treated to a reading by Robert Creeley, Friday. The Albuquerque poet read selections from his books of poetry "With Love and Words," and a few sections of his prose work-in-progress, "Pieces." A Creeley reading is a unique experience. His entire body becomes intimately involved with the tensions of the linguistic occurrence. It almost seems thaf the words were being ripped untimely from the authors mouth, with his whole being participating in the agony and energy oi the extraction. It is unfortunate that the evident vitality which went into the poems did not result in equally vital poems. He falls again and again into a syntacticly repetitious staccato nhnsi c which at length became as a catalogue Surely there better way of getting at ini, than a line like: "She '5 had moved. He heard her. Thefc He hated it. j Even more frustrating than Ik ti phrasing, he never quite seemed to al be able to involve his language ic n the subject experience. He B continually on the periphen cataloging the manifestations , life and occurrence, withoo; 1 containing them. ' One hopes that (1; craftsmanship he evidenced it some of his facetious poems ii at some point in his career, b; applied to the creation of safe poetry. Versified diaries are ta! common and distasteful. m |
