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Creeley's book, A Form of Women, is an extreme…. Creeley's poetry is an erosive thing. It has a weather & landscape to it that ought to frighten young poets. Erosive like Olson's or Pound's or Williams' or Whitman's or Shakespeare's or Ginsberg's or any really strong poet. The poetry has such definite features, & easily imitated surfaces that the weak … among us (poets) will naturally cling to how they do these wonderful things & even try to take on the content as part of their own content. I mean I read some of Creeley's poems and find myself, suddenly, talking certain things about, say, women, that I certainly don't hold with … don't even, properly, understand. (Certainly not the way Creeley must, understand, to write about them so.) The book is marvelous. Most of the poems are beauties. He is even … indicating other places he might take us that he has never...
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