Robert Creeley

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Robert Creeley is written by Ekbert Faas and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 077356912X (ISBN 10) and 9780773569126 (ISBN 13).

In this biography Ekbert Faas pioneers a new kind of "life-writing." It tells its stories through the emotions, thoughts, and, above all, language of the dramatis personae, exchanging the authorial omniscience of traditional biography for an utter fidelity to sources. Allowing for contradictory viewpoints, anecdotes are told and re-told, letting Creeley reveal himself beneath the myths created by self-invention, wishful thinking, and, sometimes, distortion. Excerpts from autobiographical writings by the poet's first wife, Ann McKinnon, complete this intriguingly colourful and complex picture.