Announcing for sale: Selections from Robert Creeley's Library of Interest to Literary and Art Collections
List 1 (A-C)
Granary Books is pleased to offer for sale, as individual items, a rich and compelling selection of more than 1,300 books, pamphlets, manuscripts, correspondence and related materials from the library of preeminent American poet Robert Creeley (1926-2005). Robert Creeley made a practice of inserting relevant letters, manuscripts, clippings, photographs and ephemera into his books, many of which also bear significant inscriptions, thus making his library an important documentary archive occupying a rich site for research into the poets and poetics of the New American Poetry.
The collection will be offered for sale as individual items via a series of email lists issued over the next several months. The first list (A-C) comprises works from: Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Paul Blackburn, Robin Blaser, Joe Brainard, Stan Brakhage, Richard Brautigan, James Broughton, Basil Bunting, Tom Clark, Cid Corman, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley and Judson Crews, among others.
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Steve Clay
Granary Books
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Click here to see the contents of The Robert Creeley Library List 1 (A-C) featuring:
Highlights among the author collections particularly rich with inscriptions and often including important correspondence and other association and archival material are: Ted Berrigan, Paul Blackburn (14 items), Joe Brainard (12 items), Stan Brakhage, Richard Brautigan (13 items), Basil Bunting (14 items), Tom Clark, Fielding Dawson (33 items), Diane Di Prima, Edward Dorn (31 items), Robert Duncan and Jess (over 50 items including "Caesar’s Gate," Divers Press, 1955, Creeley’s copy [1 of 3 – letter “C”] with an original Jess collage and holograph poem by Duncan), Larry Eigner, Allen Ginsberg (35 items many with excellent inscriptions), John Hawkes, Anselm Hollo, Ronald Johnson, Joanne Kyger, Irving Layton (12 items), Denise Levertov (28 items), Alison Lurie, Michael McClure (42 items), Charles Olson (59 items including several inscribed), Joel Oppenheimer (including "The Dancer" 1951 with Robert Rauschenberg, Jargon 2), Ann Quin, Tom Raworth, Aram Saroyan (11 items), Gary Snyder (including an inscribed copy of "Riprap" Origin Press, 1959), Philip Whalen, John Wieners, Jonathan Williams (26 items authored by JW including "Garbage Litters the Iron Face of the Sun’s Child" 1951, Jargon 1, along with more than 35 other titles published by the Jargon Society), and Louis Zukofsky (29 items including "80 Flowers").
The library includes Creeley’s personal copies of most of his regular separate publications (217 items) and contained within many are inscriptions, annotations, corrections, cards, letters, photographs, clippings, notes, etc. from Marisol, Edward Dahlberg, Stan Brakhage, Louis Zukofsky, Sherman Paul, Octavio Paz, Jim Dine, Georg Baselitz, Walter Hamady, Fielding Dawson, Denise Levertov, among others. Several of Creeley’s collaborations with artists are present including "A Day Book" with R.B. Kitaj (Graphis, 1972), "Signs" with Georg Baselitz (Graphicstudio, 2000), and "7 & 6" with Robert Therrien and Michel Butor (Hoshour Gallery, 1988).
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