An Outline of American Literature

by Kathryn VanSpanckeren

American Poetry Since 1945: Authors: Robert Creeley (1926- )

Robert Creeley who writes with a terse, minimalist style, was one of the major Black Mountain poets. In "The Warning" (1955), Creeley imagines the violent, loving imagination:

For love -- I would
split open your head and put
a candle in
behind the eyes.

Love is dead in us
if we forget
the virtues of an amulet
and quick surprise

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