37015 Dear lovers of the word, This great and fine man's passing is tender reminder that our time here is finite, and infinitely precious. We offer you a Creeley reading from one of the many times he graced Naropa's students with his vision and with his voice. Creeley begins at 32 minutes in. --------------- May 21, 1926 - March 30, 2005 American poet Robert Creeley passed away this morning at 6:15 am in Odessa, Texas, where he was fulfilling a Residency at the Lannan Foundation. (Mr Creeley was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.) His wife of twenty-eight years, Penelope, and son Will and daughter Hannah were at his side. The cause of death was complications from respiratory disease. Mr. Creeley was seventy-eight years old. A Song I had wanted a quiet testament and I had wanted, among other things, a song. That was to be of a like monotony. (A grace Simply. Very very quiet. A murmur of some lost thrush, though I have never seen one. Which was you then. Sitting and so, at peace, so very much now this same quiet. A song. And of you the sign now, surely, of a gross perpetuity (which is not reluctant, or if it is, it is no longer important. A song. Which one sings, if he sings it, with care. Robert Creeley -- Creeley reads archivegrl 2005-03-31 16:02:50 2005-03-31 15:53:04 5 1 5.00