If I Were Writing This

by Robert Creeley

Book Overview

New poetry by one of America's most acclaimed and respected poets. The poems of If I Were Writing This, Robert Creeley's first major collection since the highly praised Life & Death (1998), have an "aching sweetness" that speak to the preciousness of life as the poet both faces his own mortality and simultaneously looks on a world suddenly more precarious and fragile. In these poems there is longing, a twinge of regret sometimes, a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811215563
• ISBN13: 9780811215565
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.1"