19. Quarantine VIII - Session 1 on Robert Creeley

01/06/2020 58 min
19. Quarantine VIII - Session 1 on Robert Creeley

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Episode Synopsis

In this first of two sessions we talk humbly about, around, and through Robert Creeley by way of examining two poems: "The Immoral Proposition" and "Kore" (with more to come in our next session). This talk is characterized in part by our coming to terms of our inability to come to terms with what Creeley left us past deep appreciations and some loose holds on his poetics, intermixed with wonder at how much he was able to enjamb into the finitudes of his practice: "O love,/where are you/leading/me now?"

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