Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place

by Clark, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780811212502
• ISBN10: 0811212505
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-11-17
• Publisher: New Directions

Summary

This book is an interactive biographical essay culled from conversations between the poet and Tom Clark.

Table of Contents

Backward	p. 1
Ancestral Echoes	p. 4
The Lost Eye	p. 7
Emotion	p. 8
Helen	p. 9
A Shadow	p. 9
The Missing Father	p. 10
Pastoral: The Farm	p. 16
House	p. 17
The Doctor's Ghost	p. 18
Language and the Genius Loci: Mother's Voice	p. 19
Hearth and Home of Speech	p. 24
Still Waters Run Deep: Language and the Company of Men	p. 28
The Brothers of the Woods: Measuring Up to Manly Models	p. 35
Genius Loci: "Where the heart finds rest"	p. 35
Genius Loci: The Woods	p. 36
Immanence and the Genius Loci: God Not in Church But in the Woods	p. 38
That Still Small Voice: The Language of the Hymnal and the Lyric Landscape	p. 40
Music and "Culture"	p. 42
Rules	p. 58
Driven	p. 58
Work, Care and the Puritan Tradition	p. 59
Order	p. 60
Getting Away from the Plan	p. 62
The Attitude of Discovery: Following the Divining Rod	p. 62
Trials of the Individuation Process: Everything Moves In	p. 63
Crisis	p. 65
D. H. Lawrence and the Trials of the Individuation Process	p. 67
The Human As Scale	p. 68
Wonder	p. 73
The Common As Ground	p. 81
Some Senses of the Commonplace	p. 83
Autobiography	p. 122
Notes	p. 145
Selected Bibliography	p. 148
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