I Know a Man (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Creeley
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Friendship, Poetry or poets, Human behavior, Automobiles
The Poem
There is a deceptive simplicity to many of Robert Creeley’s poems which tends to camouflage the power the poet brings to his subject and temporarily delay a full apprehension of the work’s psychological penetration. A typical example is “I Know a Man,” one of Creeley’s most anthologized early lyrics, which is written in the discursive and reflective voice Creeley often uses. Its four stanzas are essentially a continuous expression in which nearly every word is a unit of meaning, its position and location amid punctuation, space, and other words crucial to its...
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