Volume 54, Number 16 · October 25, 2007
The Cat Went Out for Good
By Charles Simic
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975
by Robert Creeley
University of California Press, 671 pp., $24.95 (paper)
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005
by Robert Creeley
University of California Press, 662 pp., $49.95
What is the explanation for the large number of volumes of collected poems appearing in the last few years? Publishers are bringing out books of breathtaking ambition, each one containing hundreds of poems by a single poet, as if there was a huge, untapped market for every poem ever written by every dead and living American poet. In place of pocket-sized volumes or lean collections of selected poems one can comfortably read to oneself on a park bench or to a lover in bed, one is confronted by a tome that requires for its perusal a sturdy table.
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