Campbell, James, This Is the Beat Generation: New York—San Francisco—Paris, University of California Press, 2001.

This book introduces readers to the major poets and writers of the Beat Generation, among whom are Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and Robert Creeley. It provides cultural and historical background for this literary movement.

Clark, Tom, Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place, New Directions, 1993.

Clark's slim book contains a great deal of biographical material and the poet's "Autobiography." It also has many photographs and some poems, and includes transcripts of Creeley's interviews.

Creeley, Robert, The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley, University of California Press, 1989.

This is a collection of essays, reviews, and miscellaneous literary correspondence edited by the poet. Although these writings seem disconnected at first glance, they provide an insight into Creeley's aesthetic sensibility.

Edelberg, Cynthia Dubin, Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical...