This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from Hello: A Journal (1978) to Life & Death (1998) and If I were writing this (2003). Robert Creeley, who was involved with the publication of this volume before his death in 2005, helped define an emerging counter-tradition to the prevailing l...

Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, peers such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, and mentees such as Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Susan Howe, and Tom Raworth, Creeley helped forge a n...

Denise Levertov's Selected Poems delivers in a single accessible volume "one of the essential poets of our time" (Poetry Flash).Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry—the work of a poet who, as K...

In an intimate and intense discussion recorded on reel-to-reel tapes in 1963, poet Robert Creeley provides a critical understanding of his poetry, short stories, and novel. These ideas are intertwined with discussions about his personal history, literary development, and encounters with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, and Robert Duncan. There are also personal stories, including accounts of his experiences in the North American Ambulance Service in World War II and of t...

Incisive observations on popular music, poetry, and culture, and on the ways that gender, race, class, and contemporary politics shape artistic production.Poet and critic Tyrone Williams (1954–2024) was a prolific reviewer of poetry, poetics, and culture, publishing nearly 150 reviews between 1975 and 2023. Starting with his omnibus reviews of music in a college student newspaper, this collectionpresents a selection of Williams's reviews that address prominent topi...

Eight extended poems from the acclaimed author of On the Road and Big Sur—featuring an introduction by Robert CreeleyBest known for his “Legend of Duluoz” novels, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In the eight poems collected in Book of Blues, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unher...

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.Soundings in Context brings together the second and third University at Buffalo Robert Creeley Lectures in Poetry and Poetics by the renowned literary and textual scholar Jerome McGann, and the innovative, prolific Canadian poet, essayist, and novelist Lisa Robertson, respectively. The volume's first half presents McGann's "Reading (I Mean Articulating...

Poets and critics address the potential of language to address the increasing level of discord and precarity in the twenty-first century.At a time when wars, acts of terrorism, and ecological degradation have intensified and isolationism, misogyny, and ethnic divisiveness have been given distinctively more powerful voice in public discourse, language itself often seems to have failed. The poets and critics in this book argue that language has the potential to addre...

"Mutual Contempt is at once a fascinating study in character and an illuminating meditation on the role character can play in shaping history."—Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesLyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy loathed each other. Their antagonism, propelled by clashing personalities, contrasting views, and a deep, abiding animosity, would drive them to a bitterness so deep that even civil conversation was often impossible. Played out against the backdrop of the tu...

For over thirty years, Robert Ludlum has been acknowledged as the master of international suspense and intrigue. In 2000, Ludlum managed to raise the bar yet again with his widely acclaimed bestsellers The Prometheus Deception and The Hades Factor, the first novel in his exciting Covert-One series. Now Covert-One is back, in a novel that could only have come from the imagination of the world's greatest storyteller."What they're going to do, I never would have beli...

Step into a double-feature of golden-age wonder, danger, and cosmic mystery—now reborn for modern readers. Pharaohs of the Future unites two of Hugo-winner Robert Bloch's most sought-after novelettes in a single, beautifully produced volume complete with 10 custom retro-pulp illustrations that leap off the page.This Crowded EarthIn the year 2230, megacities choke the planet and humanity resorts to drastic miniaturization to survive. Office ...

A collection of paranormal historical mysteriesA Matter of HonorWhen Robert Archer is set upon and robbed one night, he’s rescued by an unlikely champion. She is a night-slayer, one of the dangerous supernatural beings that hunt through the darker side of London for their prey. Once upon a time, Captain Archer did this night-slayer a good turn, and she has been watching over him, waiting for a chance to repay the debt.Little does Robert know how ent...